Frank Lantz described making games as combining the difficulty of building a bridge with the difficulty of composing an opera.

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"Frank Lantz described making games as combining the difficulty of building a bridge with the difficulty of composing an opera."

Lantz develops the same bridge-and-opera framing in The Beauty of Games as part of his argument that games combine objective systems with aesthetic experience.

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Source title The Beauty of Games

Source authors Frank Lantz

Source year 2023

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