virtual worlds not only for entertainment but also for challenge, companionship, and even civic participation—why not embrace and encourage game design in forms that recall our favorite modes of natural play? Games can offer a compelling way to reconcile a deep connection
to nature and the nonhuman world with an equally important connection to technology and the virtual. Even Louv might agree that this is a defi ning dilemma of our times, or at least of the generations raised with a walking stic