{"id":255,"date":"2006-04-22T10:06:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T09:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=255"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T11:55:54","slug":"jarvinens-thesis-in-the-making-chip-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/04\/22\/jarvinens-thesis-in-the-making-chip-in\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u00e4rvinen&#8217;s Thesis in the Making: Chip in!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aki J\u00e4rvinen was one of the first video game researchers I ever met, and now he is finishing his Ph.d. thesis with a new big theory of video games on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net\/\">Games Without Frontiers<\/a> site.<br \/>\nHe invites us to read his chapters as they progress and to send comments.<br \/>\nChapters so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net\/g2\/2006\/04\/10\/chapter-out\/\">Chapter 3, Introduction to Game Systems, Game Elements, and Simulation.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net\/g2\/2006\/04\/15\/chapter-on-game-elements-available\/\">Chapter 4, Theory of Game Elements: From Game Systems to Their Contexts.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameswithoutfrontiers.net\/g2\/2006\/04\/21\/chapter-5-psycho-ludology\/\">Chapter 5, Key concepts in Psychology in Terms of Ludology.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An excellent way of making sure the thesis hits the market with no usability issues, while improving playability!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aki J\u00e4rvinen was one of the first video game researchers I ever met, and now he is finishing his Ph.d. thesis with a new big theory of video games on his Games Without Frontiers site. He invites us to read his chapters as they progress and to send comments. Chapters so far: Chapter 3, Introduction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/04\/22\/jarvinens-thesis-in-the-making-chip-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;J\u00e4rvinen&#8217;s Thesis in the Making: Chip in!&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3172,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}