In four sentences per quote, identify the author of the quote and explain its importance and/or significance. Indicate which quotes are being addressed.

 

Quote 1) It is easy to use oneself as reference for an 'ideal player,' even though we may not be. Ideal does not mean optimal player; rather, we look for an everyman of sorts, an abstract figure outside of cultural context and without preconceived ideas."

 

Quote 2) "If we consider games texts, we can also understand them better by analyzing what Gerard Genette calls paratexts—texts that surround the main text being analyzed, which transform and condition how the audience interprets that main text."