Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Bernie De Koven.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Bernard Louis De Koven or DeKoven was an American game designer, author, lecturer and fun theorist. He is most notable for his book The Well Played Game, for his contributions to the New Games Foundation, his pioneering work in computer game design, and for his long-running web site, deepFUN.com.
The path that is best for you is the path that keeps the best of you in play.
Ask not what fun does for you. Ask rather what you do for fun.
In a Game Community, the rules and officials decide if the players are good enough to play. If not, they change players. In a Play Community, the players decide if the game is fun enough to play. If not, they change rules.
The purpose of fun is to live it.
For every Way there's a way of following that Way that's fun
Fun is where it's at. That's why you have to be there.
Games are like Rorschachs made of human relationships.
You can only have fun helping other people have fun if you're having fun doing it.
It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.
Joy is overwhelming fun - fun so big that it overflows your mind, heart, body - as if all of life and love were spilling into you and you were spilling out.