You don't want to be told, "Hey, do whatever you want." That's what we think of when we think of play. It's the thing where you get to do whatever you come up with in your own mind, all bets are off, there's no boundaries. 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