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Frank Lantz

What Frank Lantz thinks about Addiction

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Game designer and writer, founder of the NYU Game Center, creator of Universal Paperclips and Drop7, and author of The Beauty of Games. Writes about games as an aesthetic form at his newsletter Donkeyspace.

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  1. Our readingDesigned addiction in gambling games is real and can consume a person’s life.

    Their wordsThe world is full of gambling games that want to crawl into your limbic system and drain every last ounce of life-force from your soul.

    ↗Are Games Good?franklantz.substack.com 3rd of 5 in this piece

  3. Our readingAnyone who wants to understand games should learn to play the compulsive ones and, in the same motion, learn how to stop.

    Their wordsBut I also think that, if you really want to understand games, you should learn how to play these games. Which means learning how to stop playing them. You should learn how to disappear into them, how to let them swallow you whole, and then learn how to extract yourself, safely, on the other side.

    ↗Are Games Good?franklantz.substack.com 4th of 5 in this piece