Totally, I don’t think any one perspective is complete & sufficient. What I like about the 8 kinds of fun is it pushes back against an approach I think you see

Totally, I don’t think any one perspective is complete & sufficient. What I like about the 8 kinds of fun is it pushes back against an approach I think you see a lot in “serious” board game circles of a kind of “model/view” perspective on games. The mechanics are the model and the only part worth paying serious attention to, and the setting/fluff/etc is the essentially interchangeable view. The “8 kinds” perspective is a reminder that people engage with games in a lot of different ways, many of which really live in the interaction between the model and view.