{"id":831,"date":"2009-12-16T11:27:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T15:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=831"},"modified":"2009-12-16T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T15:43:02","slug":"interviews-with-ex-hardcore-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/12\/16\/interviews-with-ex-hardcore-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviews with ex-hardcore Gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5427813\/interviews-with-ex+hardcore-gamers--and-new-casual-ones\">Kotaku is running some excerpts<\/a> from the interview section of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/casualrevolution\/\">A Casual Revolution<\/a>. In the book I interviewed players about how their playing habits had changed over time.<\/p>\n<p>One of the player types I identified was the ex-hardcore player, whose life has become conducive to playing shorter-form casual games.<\/p>\n<p>The excerpt also features interviews showing how new players came to play casual games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Type 2: These are the stories of players who used to intensely play video games and now have switched to more casual video games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Survey response from a 40-year-old female player.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Q: Have your game-playing habits changed over the years?<\/p>\n<p>A: I used to only play RPGs like Guild Wars but you can start and stop casual games easier during the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Survey response from a 42-year-old female player.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Q: Have your game-playing habits changed over the years?<\/p>\n<p>A: Started with text-only adventure games, moved toward RPG video-games &amp; simulations, most recently I stick with time management-type casual games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Survey response from a 30-year-old female player.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Q: Have your game-playing habits changed over the years?<\/p>\n<p>A: Having a baby really changed my game playing habits. When she needs my attention the game must stop. This is why World of Warcraft has been hard to play as of late.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5427813\/interviews-with-ex+hardcore-gamers--and-new-casual-ones\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kotaku is running some excerpts from the interview section of A Casual Revolution. In the book I interviewed players about how their playing habits had changed over time. One of the player types I identified was the ex-hardcore player, whose life has become conducive to playing shorter-form casual games. The excerpt also features interviews showing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/12\/16\/interviews-with-ex-hardcore-gamers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interviews with ex-hardcore Gamers&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-casual-revolution","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}