{"id":12873,"date":"2018-04-04T12:26:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12873"},"modified":"2018-04-04T12:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:26:43","slug":"bernard-louis-de-koven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12873","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Louis De Koven\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Louis De Koven was born\u00a0on October 15, 1941.\u00a0He was an American games designer who was a <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/389997\/how-games-pioneer-bernie-de-koven-taught-the-gospel-of-play\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beloved inspiration to generations<\/a> of game players and designers.<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2017, De Koven notified his blog followers that he had terminal cancer and only about one year left to live. He asked that they continue to spread the joy of play.<\/p>\n<p>H<sup id=\"cite_ref-20\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>e died on 24 March 2018 at the age of 76.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12874 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/330px-berniedekoven.jpg\" alt=\"330px-berniedekoven\" width=\"330\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/330px-berniedekoven.jpg 330w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/330px-berniedekoven-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Spreading the joy of play<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernie_De_Koven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard De Koven<\/a> wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aplayfulpath.com\/the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Playful Path<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Well Played Game. He was well known\u00a0for his contributions to the\u00a0New Games Foundation, his pioneering work in computer game design, and for his long-running web site,\u00a0deepFUN.com.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 he won the Ifill-Raynolds award for &#8220;outstanding achievement in the field of fun&#8221; from the North American Simulation and Gaming Association.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fl-post-title  width880\">Fun Is Easy<\/h2>\n<p>In 2011, his article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepfun.com\/fun-is-easy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fun is easy\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0showed that fun isn&#8217;t a hard thing, but remembering to have fun is hard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-soundcloud\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"748\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F222656144&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=748&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">The politics of public playfulness<\/h2>\n<p>In a TED talk from 2015, De Koven<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernie_De_Koven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<\/a>describes and illustrates the power of adult playfulness.\u00a0Engaging the audience in several of his more playful games, he demonstrates how joyfully adults welcome the opportunity to expose their playful selves.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The politics of public playfulness | Bernard De Koven | TEDxAsheville\" width=\"748\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FnG3-k5phUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Louis De Koven was born\u00a0on October 15, 1941.\u00a0He was an American games designer who was a beloved inspiration to generations of game players and designers. 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He asked that they continue to spread &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12873\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bernard Louis De Koven\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[663,514],"tags":[677,678,471,668,679,680],"class_list":["post-12873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","category-people","tag-bernard-louis-de-koven","tag-finding-fun","tag-fun","tag-games","tag-play","tag-playing-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bernard Louis De Koven\u00a0 - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12873\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bernard Louis De Koven\u00a0 - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bernard Louis De Koven was born\u00a0on October 15, 1941.\u00a0He was an American games designer who was a beloved inspiration to generations of game players and designers. 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