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Butterfield is a strange choice for a two-time CEO of a gaming company. He\u2019s no Mark Pincus \u2014 by his own admission, he\u2019s not that into gaming. As a former philosophy student with a master\u2019s from Cambridge, he was more interested in play as a framework for social interaction than play for play\u2019s sake. \u201cInfinite games are what we collectively do as a species for building culture,\u201d Butterfield explains. \u201cIt\u2019s fundamental for human beings, as deep a desire as hunger and thirst and sex.\u201d From an early age, he was intrigued with how online communities like IRC allowed people to experiment with their identities. His then-wife Caterina Fake found the topic compelling too. \u201cThere are at least two kinds of games,\u201d Butterfield says, paraphrasing a favorite scholar of his. \u201cThe first type is played for the purpose of winning and the second type you play for the purpose of play.\u201d When they brainstormed a company to start, they settled on building \u201cGame Neverending.\u201d Butterfield and Fake spent a year and a half creating it.<\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s a shame James P. Carce isn\u2019t explicitly referenced in this passage. I never found the finite versus infinite game dichotomy very useful as a design guide, though.<\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s also odd to me that if the aim was to make a \u201cnever ending\u201d game with Glitch, why so many of its mechanics were about achieving things and making progress. The game was chock full of things that could be \u201cused up\u201d. Hardly infinite.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Butterfield is a strange choice for a two-time CEO of a gaming company. He\u2019s no Mark Pincus \u2014 by his own admission, he\u2019s not that into gaming. As a former philosophy student with a master\u2019s from Cambridge, he was more interested in play as a framework for social interaction than play for play\u2019s sake. \u201cInfinite … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}