{"id":1779,"date":"2013-05-28T13:54:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2013-05-28T13:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:55:25","slug":"10-years-of-the-ludologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2013\/05\/28\/10-years-of-the-ludologist\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years of the Ludologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 10th anniversary of <em>The Ludologist<\/em> blog. Here is the very first post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/welcome-to-blogdom\">Welcome to Blogdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>10 years sounds like a long time, but the blog also feels like it has been operating on its own separate time scale all along. I started blogging while I was working on my PhD, but now I have been a full-time academic for almost 9 years. I am also married and a father now (but I could never get myself to blog about personal things).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">I started blogging when &#8220;video games&#8221; almost exclusively meant AAA games sold in boxes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I started blogging before cell phone games had taken off.<\/li>\n<li>I started blogging before casual games took off.<\/li>\n<li>I started blogging before art games, indie games, and personal games.<\/li>\n<li>When I started blogging, experimental game (or interactive art) creators used to emphasize that they were <em>not<\/em> making games in any way. Now they emphasize that they are.<\/li>\n<li>Book published since I started blogging: 3.<\/li>\n<li>Blog posts: 635.<\/li>\n<li>Blog comments: 2142.<\/li>\n<li>Best hosting service used: <a href=\"http:\/\/secure.hostgator.com\/~affiliat\/cgi-bin\/affiliates\/clickthru.cgi?id=JesperJuul\">Hostgator<\/a>. Worst: Dreamhost.<\/li>\n<li>When I started blogging, there were few books on video games. We were still going over Huizinga, Caillois, and Sutton-Smith, looking for secret knowledge from the past.<\/li>\n<li>I recently made a list of must-have video game books &#8230; got to 100. (I may post the list later.)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">I started blogging before game jams were a thing, and when experimental video games were still considered weird and exceptional.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Twitter and social media are poor replacements for blog posts and discussion. Because: Twitter comments invariably become snarky and\/or misunderstood. Facebook comments disappear in the stream of time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Game studies is a big field now. I think we managed to construct the field, and to launch game educations (vocational or otherwise) at a surprising speed. I think that some of the better work and discussion show that we really are getting smarter.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Though there can also be a sense of history repeating at times. And yet, many of the basic questions (i.e. games and narrative, games and players, design and industry, what is a &#8220;good game&#8221;) are <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">different<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> questions now than they were 10 years ago. They appear against a different background.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<ul style=\"display: inline !important;\">Becoming smarter seems to entail that many of the discussions that were assumed to be resolvable on a high level &#8230; turn out to contain smaller discussions and questions inside.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul style=\"display: inline !important;\">Knowledge accumulates, but not in the way you thought it would.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Blogging and game research remain\u00a0<em>fun<\/em> (in a much more pure and unambiguous sense than games are fun, strangely).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 10th anniversary of The Ludologist blog. Here is the very first post, Welcome to Blogdom. 10 years sounds like a long time, but the blog also feels like it has been operating on its own separate time scale all along. I started blogging while I was working on my PhD, but now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2013\/05\/28\/10-years-of-the-ludologist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10 years of the Ludologist&#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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","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=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}