The Pleasure of Playing Less
In this book, we explore the pleasure of playing less through a collective experience of playing the Kittens Game -- a self-described “Dark Souls of incremental gaming”. We draw on techniques of close reading and hermeneutics to ground our analysis and supplement our individual reflections on how th...
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| author | Alharthi, Sultan A. Toups Dugas, Phoebe Alsaedi, Olaa Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean Hammer, Jessica |
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| description | In this book, we explore the pleasure of playing less through a collective experience of playing the Kittens Game -- a self-described “Dark Souls of incremental gaming”. We draw on techniques of close reading and hermeneutics to ground our analysis and supplement our individual reflections on how these games incentivize players to play less and plan more. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1769592026-05-29T13:38:04Z The Pleasure of Playing Less Alharthi, Sultan A. Toups Dugas, Phoebe Alsaedi, Olaa Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean Hammer, Jessica Incremental games Idle games Clicker games Game studies thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PB Mathematics::PBU Optimization::PBUD Game theory In this book, we explore the pleasure of playing less through a collective experience of playing the Kittens Game -- a self-described “Dark Souls of incremental gaming”. We draw on techniques of close reading and hermeneutics to ground our analysis and supplement our individual reflections on how these games incentivize players to play less and plan more. 2026-05-29T13:38:03Z 2026-05-29T13:38:03Z 2025 book ONIX_20260529T152920_9781300275749_36 9781300275749 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176959 eng image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://playstorypress.org/books/the-pleasure-of-playing-less/ https://works.hcommons.org/records/rv50h-2ww46/files/The-Pleasure-of-Playing-Less-Repository.pdf?download=1 Play Story Press Play Story Press 10.17613/4j4t4-75n35 10.17613/4j4t4-75n35 b81bccd1-e4f6-45a3-a336-f32dd4e6af5d 9781300275749 Play Story Press Pittsburgh, PA open access |
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