Homo Ludens

The quotes you can read above are just two of so many others which were told by other genius minds who realized the real importance of playing games. Playing is really important in the life of children and adults as well, and the problem is, as people start to grow up, they slowly forget how to play games. In childhood, playing gives children the basic skills of problem solving, creativity, building connections, and all the important features that help kids to be a successful adult.

One of the most important parts of the history of game studies is the book Homo Ludens, written by Johan Huizinga, a Dutch historian, and cultural theorist, in 1938. This legendary science book opens up the connection between play and culture, law, war, knowledge, art, philosophy, and science, and shows you the fact, that playing period of human life doesn’t end with the end of childhood. Human beings are created as social creatures, who need each others company, and the best way to make connections, friends, or simply have a good time is playing games. Everybody knows that happy people are those who love their job so much as working is just playing a game for them.

Playing games today

The way of playing changed a lot in the last decade's thanks to the fast technical development. Kids nowadays live in the virtual worlds instead of the real one, they don’t really go out to play each other, but they sit inside their rooms and play video games. It’s not healthy for the body and soul. Video games are helping to improve the logical thinking skills, but they can’t replace the experience of spending time together with other kids and get socialized. Even if they move outside, they have smartphones which keep them in the virtual reality.

But still there are really cool games

Which worth to try, and introduce them to our children. There are old school puzzles that the Y and older generation still have in their mind because they grew up by playing these games. The new genre of puzzle games are escaped room games: a group of people is locked in a room and they have to escape by solving puzzles in time. The number of the storyline is almost infinite, there are rooms for adults, children, or both. These are real team games people have to trust and listen to each other. On the other hand, it improves the personal skills like problem-solving, critical thinking, and communicating. On the internet, you can find escape game databases like www.roomescape.com, where you can find the nearest escape game room around you. You can read all the information here you might need before going to play like prices, room capacities, storylines etc. etc.

So the most important are: You are never too old to play games! Improve your skills and have fun with your friends or colleagues as a team building!