And Speaking of Fun Leading to Money...

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I'm recommending two of my very favorite books of all time:

A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster

Raph, the Creative Lead of Many a Famous Online Game looks first at Human Nature, and from that, he deduces that games are very important, and puts forward formulae for understanding games. You end up going, "Woah."

BUT LOOK!

The Game of God: Recovering Your True Identity by Arthur B. Hancock, Kathleen J. Brugger

Hancock and Brugger start with the appealing nature of games. Working backwards from Koster, they manage to conclude the essence of Human Nature...

It's the Same Thing, but Opposite!!!!!

AND it gets even MORE scary!!!

Are you ready???

They both use BIG fonts, and can be read in about a day...but there's MORE!!!

Do the "search inside this book" button on both books...do you see it?

Both books have the Crappiest Drawings of Games and Humans engaged in Gaming and Other Things that You've Ever Seen or Ever Will See!!!!!

What's the deal? Where were these guys when God was handing out right hands???? If you're a genius writer, does your ability to draw well go down the toilet? Inquiring minds want to know!

Anyway, the Universe works, so says I, and games are a bloody important part of that. If you read both these books, you'll understand why, you'll be a great philosopher, and you'll be able to make a pile of money off of making totally excellent games. And it will have only taken, like, two days.

But your eyes will hurt from the awful drawings.

That's my book report. Sorry I'm late. My dog ate the good one.

Your Move.