{"id":269,"date":"2006-06-29T21:03:55","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T20:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=269"},"modified":"2006-06-29T21:14:23","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T20:14:23","slug":"casual-players-not-so-casual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/06\/29\/casual-players-not-so-casual\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual Players not so Casual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Macrovision report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=9893\">summarized at Gamasutra<\/a>, casual gamers are a lot more hardcore than you may think:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>37 percent of those who use casual games play nine or more two-hour &#8216;sessions&#8217; each week.<br \/>\nIn addition, the survey, of 789 worldwide participants, found that casual gameplay happens most often at night, as opposed to during commute hours or other &#8216;quick break&#8217; times during the day, again indicating that the moniker &#8216;casual&#8217; is a little anachronistic for the gameplay style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this contradicts the conventional wisdom about having a low barrier of entry to a casual game, and making it playable in very small time spans &#8211; for the players I think it is all about not having to spend hours getting into a game, and being free to play when and how they want to.<\/p>\n<p>People may still play a puzzle game for hours, but of their own free will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Macrovision report, summarized at Gamasutra, casual gamers are a lot more hardcore than you may think: 37 percent of those who use casual games play nine or more two-hour &#8216;sessions&#8217; each week. In addition, the survey, of 789 worldwide participants, found that casual gameplay happens most often at night, as opposed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/06\/29\/casual-players-not-so-casual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Casual Players not so Casual&#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-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}