Reflections on Video Games and Game History: An Interview with Jesper Juul

Abstract

[...]it did feel as though literary theory often came up short in addressing human experience. How has game studies as an area of research changed in the decades since you entered the field? [...]there really is no field you can safely declare will never be relevant to the study of games. Juul: Playing board games with my family, I remember the puzzlement at commercial Monopoly variations like Anti-Monopoly and Class Struggle, which retained the structure of Monopoly, but with antithetical themes.