{"id":81,"date":"2004-05-15T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T10:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=81"},"modified":"2004-05-15T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2004-05-15T10:21:42","slug":"one-hand-on-the-mouse-one-holding-a-cigarette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/05\/15\/one-hand-on-the-mouse-one-holding-a-cigarette\/","title":{"rendered":"One Hand on the Mouse, one holding a Cigarette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It never ceases to surprise me how various mundance practicalities can end up having important implications for game design. Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1043_3-5212499.html?tag=nl\">article on breaking into the Chinese market<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>&#8220;The game has to be Internet-cafe friendly, and people are smoking all the time in those cafes,&#8221; Needham said. &#8220;You have to set it up so they can play the game with one hand on the mouse and one holding a cigarette.&#8221;<\/ol>\n<p>I admit that I wouldn&#8217;t have thought of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It never ceases to surprise me how various mundance practicalities can end up having important implications for game design. Here&#8217;s an article on breaking into the Chinese market: &#8220;The game has to be Internet-cafe friendly, and people are smoking all the time in those cafes,&#8221; Needham said. &#8220;You have to set it up so they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/05\/15\/one-hand-on-the-mouse-one-holding-a-cigarette\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Hand on the Mouse, one holding a Cigarette&#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-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}