{"id":1840,"date":"2013-11-26T13:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T12:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2013-11-26T19:25:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T18:25:12","slug":"at-first-it-was-mainly-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2013\/11\/26\/at-first-it-was-mainly-women\/","title":{"rendered":"At first it was mainly women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBT has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/articles\/516877\/20131025\/mobile-gaming-online-spilgames-casual.htm\">interesting interview with\u00a0Bas Seelen of Spilgames<\/a>, explaining how the audience for casual games has expanded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At first it was mainly women that played casual games online but now we have three brands to cater for a wide range audience because of the uptake from different demographics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">So we have come full circle, from catering to an audience that includes women, to catering to an audience that includes men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">It remains an open question how this will all play out with the new consoles. Has the time for consoles passed, or is there still a sufficiently large audience for them; an audience whose desires for games are not being fulfilled in mobile, browser-based or computer-based games?<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBT has an interesting interview with\u00a0Bas Seelen of Spilgames, explaining how the audience for casual games has expanded: At first it was mainly women that played casual games online but now we have three brands to cater for a wide range audience because of the uptake from different demographics. So we have come full circle, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2013\/11\/26\/at-first-it-was-mainly-women\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At first it was mainly women&#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":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-casual-revolution","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","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=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}