{"id":776,"date":"2009-10-26T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=776"},"modified":"2009-10-26T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T17:55:04","slug":"a-casual-revolution-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/10\/26\/a-casual-revolution-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"A Casual Revolution is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/casualrevolution\/\">A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players<\/a> has just been published by MIT Press.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-777\" title=\"casualrevolution_200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/casualrevolution_200.jpg\" alt=\"casualrevolution_200\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><em>A Casual Revolution<\/em> is my take on what is happening with video games right now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is the Nintendo Wii more successful than the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3?<\/li>\n<li> Why is the audience for video games expanding?<\/li>\n<li> Who plays <em>Bejeweled<\/em>, and why?<\/li>\n<li> What is a casual player? What is casual game design?<\/li>\n<li> Are casual games a return to the arcade game, or are they something new?<\/li>\n<li> How did Solitaire become one of the most popular video games?<\/li>\n<li> What is the secret behind the success of <em>Guitar Hero<\/em> and <em>Rock Band<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li> Why is Parcheesi\/Ludo a social game? Why is <em>Animal Crossing<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li> Does the rise of casual games mean the downfall of hardcore games?<\/li>\n<li> &#8230; and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>A Casual Revolution<\/em> is a 256-page book about what is important: The joy of the casual video games that we play during a work break, on phones, with the family, or with friends at a late-night party.<\/p>\n<p>The book includes 100 illustrations as well as interviews with game players and developers.<\/p>\n<p>Get A Casual Revolution from your neighborhood bookstore or from your favorite online retailer.<\/p>\n<p>The book&#8217;s companion website is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/casualrevolution\/\">http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/casualrevolution\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official MIT Press page: <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=11844\">http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=11844<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everybody who made this book possible!<\/p>\n<p>-Jesper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players has just been published by MIT Press. A Casual Revolution is my take on what is happening with video games right now: Why is the Nintendo Wii more successful than the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3? Why is the audience for video games expanding? Who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/10\/26\/a-casual-revolution-is-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Casual Revolution is out!&#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":[19,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-casual-revolution","category-games","category-my_publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","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=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}