{"id":1020,"date":"2010-05-23T14:15:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T18:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2010-05-23T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T22:45:02","slug":"bejeweled-game-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/05\/23\/bejeweled-game-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Bejeweled: Game of the Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/htlit.com\">Htlit.com<\/a>, I have a short text arguing that <em>Bejeweled<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/htlit.com\/archives\/April2010\/GameoftheDecade4.html\">is the most important game of the 2000&#8217;s <\/a>(the decade, that is). (Waiting for the protests from a crowd of angry gamers.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Viewed strictly as a game design, this  probably isn&#8217;t\u00a0the most enjoyable game of the decade. Neither is it the  most innovative, being rather an incremental development based of a  number of existing designs.What makes\u00a0<em>Bejeweled<\/em> the game of the  decade is its central role in the casual revolution: This game was  instrumental in creating the first video game distribution channel aimed  at an older and predominantly female audience (downloadable casual  games), hence redefining our ideas of what a video game could be and who  could play video games. Furthermore, its basic gameplay of swapping  tiles to make colored matches has taken on a life of its own, now  playable on cell phones and aeroplanes; as relaxed game sessions without  any time pressure; packaged as a role-playing game set in a fantasy  world (<em>Puzzle Quest<\/em>);\u00a0as a one-minute intensive game for  competing against friends (<em>Bejeweled Blitz<\/em>). That is the  importance of <em>Bejeweled<\/em>: showing us how many different things  video games can be, showing us that there are many ways to play, use,  and enjoy video games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Bejeweled\" src=\"http:\/\/htlit.com\/elements\/Bejeweled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Htlit.com, I have a short text arguing that Bejeweled is the most important game of the 2000&#8217;s (the decade, that is). (Waiting for the protests from a crowd of angry gamers.) Viewed strictly as a game design, this probably isn&#8217;t\u00a0the most enjoyable game of the decade. Neither is it the most innovative, being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/05\/23\/bejeweled-game-of-the-decade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bejeweled: Game of the Decade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-my_publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}