{"id":475,"date":"2008-09-08T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T20:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=475"},"modified":"2008-09-08T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T20:35:39","slug":"the-sun-used-to-always-shine-in-casual-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/09\/08\/the-sun-used-to-always-shine-in-casual-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun used to always shine in Casual Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I have been saying that &#8220;The Sun Always Shines in Casual Games&#8221;: Casual games, especially the downloadable ones, have tended to be colorful and bright, with a weather that was always good, with themes that were always cheerful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfishgames.com\/download-games\/3864\/righteous-kill\/index.html\">Righteous Kill<\/a> breaks with that: It is a hidden object game, but this time your job is to find a serial killer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.gamecentersolution.com\/box\/1216_BvlGlass_200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About time &#8211; after all, we can find lots of dark themes, tragedy, and murders in mainstream entertainment as well as in the entertainment for the presumed female audience of casual games.<\/p>\n<p>The game seems to be doing <a href=\"http:\/\/casualcharts.com\/games\/detail\/righteouskill.html\">reasonably well<\/a>, so perhaps we will be seeing more thematic variation in the future.<\/p>\n<p>(There have been detective and mystery casual games before, but Righteous Kill is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a lot<\/span> darker than other games I have seen.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I have been saying that &#8220;The Sun Always Shines in Casual Games&#8221;: Casual games, especially the downloadable ones, have tended to be colorful and bright, with a weather that was always good, with themes that were always cheerful. Righteous Kill breaks with that: It is a hidden object game, but this time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/09\/08\/the-sun-used-to-always-shine-in-casual-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sun used to always shine in Casual 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}