Jesper Juul is a video game theorist interested in how video games are meaningful to players. He is an associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design and has developed several master-level programs in game design at the ITU of Copenhagen, at New York University Game Center, and at KADK in Copenhagen. He has published four books with MIT Press: Half-Real (2005), A Casual Revolution (2009), and The Art of Failure (2013), and Handmade Pixels (2019). He is also a coeditor of the Playful Thinking Series (MIT Press).