A Theory of Fun

by Raph Koster

Today we are seeing a new form of it, but in order to really understand it properly, we need to begin with this really deep evolutionary hold that games have on us. Koster looks at games as something that’s about learning above all, and they are in his phrase ‘chewy’ environments for our brains, where we are performing a task again and again to get better at beating the particular properties of a particular environment.