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# The Art of Failure, virtual kitten petting, & do you lie about the games you’ve played?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/cheat-sheet-723/
- Published: 2013-07-23T12:20:42.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:08:24.000Z
- Description: Pseudologia fantastica, we like dying a lot, Cormac McCarthy 101, invisible kittles, Museum of Design Atlanta, pitch drops—confirmed, and do bars really trust drunk people not to spill Sierra Nevada on this expensive-looking touch screen game?
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, social game, Virtual Reality, women in games, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

[Salon has repubbed an excerpt from Jesper Juul](http://www.salon.com/2013/07/13/video%5Fgames%5Fmake%5Fus%5Fall%5Flosers/?ref=killscreen.com)’s highly-recommended book *The Art of Failure: on the Pain of Playing Video Games*. We had [a really great conversation with Jesper](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/interviews/i-dying-lot/?ref=killscreen.com) a year back.

> *We know that players prefer games in which they fail. This is the paradox of failure in games. It can be stated like this:*  
>  
> *1\. We generally avoid failure.*  
> *2\. We experience failure when playing games.*  
> *3\. We seek out games, although we will experience something that we normally avoid.*

In other book news, Book Riot published [the results of their survey on books people lie about reading](http://bookriot.com/2013/07/17/top-20-books-you-pretend-to-have-read/?ref=killscreen.com) in this handy dandy Venn diagram. We’d love to see one of these about games. What games do you lie about finishing?

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/br-venn-meaning-to-and-pretend-to.jpg)

There’s been plenty of comparison between *The Last of Us* and *The Road*. [If you’re interested in tackling Cormac McCarthy, here’s a primer](http://bookriot.com/2013/07/20/a-beginners-guide-to-cormac-mccarthy/?ref=killscreen.com). (We once decided to read *All the Pretty Horses*, but let our girlfriend borrow it and never saw it again. The moral of this story: never loan the person you’re dating a book!)

Ever wonder what it would feel like to to pet a virtual kitty? (Yes! We had a recurring lucid dream about this very subject throughout our twenties—*ed.*) Disney Research is working on interactive tactile technology called [Aireal](http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/aireal?ref=killscreen.com).

Pat C. Klein [designed a board game based on Facebook](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/facebook-board-game%5Fn%5F3625047.html?ref=killscreen.com)—after all, meeting up with a friend to play a game together is probably going to do more for your relationship than checking up on their latest status update.

Mentioned previously, but worth repeating: [An awesome exhibit featuring games made by women](http://www.ajc.com/news/entertainment/museum-of-design-exhibit-talk-shows-womens-touch-o/nYxMd/?ref=killscreen.com) is happening at the Museum of Design in Atlanta. It’s actually the first exhibit *ever* to feature women in game design. We went, so should you!

*Don’t F\*\*k Up!* is the bar game designed for dipsomaniacs. Which means it should involve saying “Woo!” a lot, making a concentrated effort to not break the seal, and waking up the next morning fully clothed.

Does the guy on cam look tispy? Yeah, we thought so too.

[The pitch has dropped](http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0717/463097-trinity-college-dublin-pitch-experiment/?utm%5Fcontent=buffere0c31&utm%5Fsource=buffer&utm%5Fmedium=twitter&utm%5Fcampaign=Buffer). If you’re avid [Radiolab](http://www.radiolab.org/2013/feb/05/?ref=killscreen.com) listeners like us, this is big news!

*Adios!*