The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design

Game design is rigorous, challenging, creative, and playful. Designers and activists, programmers and architects, artists and entrepreneurs, kids, students, and professionals of all stripes-everyone learns from designing games. The thought-provoking essays and hands-on exercises in The Rules We Break introduce new approaches to creative collaboration, group brainstorming, problem solving, design iteration, understanding systems, and communicating ideas-strategies that are useful across any discipline or situation. Redesign the rules of Tic-Tac-Toe; compose an interactive story on a deck of blank cards; conceive, design, and playtest original projects; and more. (Computers not required!)