{"id":304,"date":"2007-01-03T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=304"},"modified":"2007-01-04T00:18:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T23:18:57","slug":"without-a-goal-on-expressive-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/01\/03\/without-a-goal-on-expressive-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Without a Goal: On Open and Expressive Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have posted a new article for your perusal: <a title=\"Without a Goal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/text\/withoutagoal\/\">Without a Goal: On Open and Expressive Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses the recent popularity of games without goals or with optional goals, such as <em>Sims<\/em>, the <em>Grand Theft Auto<\/em> series, and <em>World of Warcraft<\/em>.<br \/>\nIt is slated to appear in the forthcoming Videogame\/Player\/Text anthology edited by Tanya Krzywinska  and Barry Atkins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/text\/withoutagoal\/\">Without a Goal<\/a> can be considered the academic version of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=249\">Game Developer&#8217;s Conference 2006 talk<\/a> on <em>A New Kind of Game<\/em>. I.e. more references, fewer practical suggestions, and broader theoretical strokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have posted a new article for your perusal: Without a Goal: On Open and Expressive Games. The article discusses the recent popularity of games without goals or with optional goals, such as Sims, the Grand Theft Auto series, and World of Warcraft. It is slated to appear in the forthcoming Videogame\/Player\/Text anthology edited by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/01\/03\/without-a-goal-on-expressive-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Without a Goal: On Open and Expressive Games&#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":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}