I am giving a talk at the IT University in Copenhagen today.<\/p>\n
The Sun Always Shines in Casual Games: Time and Place: <\/span><\/font> Consequently, the field of casual games put strong conflicting pressures on game developers: Innovate enough to differentiate, but make the game sufficiently like other games that players find it easy to pick up and play. By illustrating the history of matching tile games, and by discussing games likes Zuma<\/em>, Bejeweled<\/em>, and Diner Dash<\/em>, I will show when and how innovation does<\/em> happen in casual games, and how developers try to assert their original contribution in a field of clones.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am giving a talk at the IT University in Copenhagen today. The Sun Always Shines in Casual Games: Cloning and Innovation in a Brand New Field Time and Place: Thursday April 12th, 16:15-17:30. Auditorium 1, ITU. Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen S. About the talk: During the past 5 or 6 years, casual … Continue reading “Talk today: The Sun Always Shines in Casual Games”<\/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-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCloning and Innovation in a Brand New Field<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n
\nThursday April 12th, 16:15-17:30. Auditorium 1, ITU. Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen S.<\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/font><\/font>About the talk:
\n<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/strong>During the past 5 or 6 years, casual games<\/em> have emerged as an important factor within video games. These are small games, easily learned, and usually distributed over the internet. The corresponding appearance of a new casual game audience demonstrates that video games for a long time have failed to speak to a large part of the population. In this talk, I will discuss how casual games differentiate themselves from other game types, and in perspective, show how “hardcore games” have acquired a set of codes and conventions that requires a level of gaming literacy to navigate.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n