the playable portion of Jesper Juul's "The Game of Video Game Objects" is cute and insightful https://www.jesperjuul.net/text/gameofobjects/

@aparrish wow, that's so clever and adorable! (i didn't want to repeat the words "cute and insightful" but i sort of did anyway)

@ranjit I was originally going to write "fun and useful"

@aparrish i just discovered that you can die in the campfire and you have to start over!

however, you can catch cannonballs with your face with no injury.

@ranjit @aparrish You can also fall off the map if you find a sneaky way out of the fences.

(What is this bullshit? Actions have *consequences*?)