Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them. Ian Bogost More Quotes by Ian Bogost More Quotes From Ian Bogost My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or where things are in the kitchen. I have this almost unhealthily obsessive desire to have things in their place and she just totally doesn't. And this is a potential point of conflict, of course. Ian Bogost kitchen wife desire The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world. Ian Bogost play world ideas