{"id":837,"date":"2010-01-07T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=837"},"modified":"2010-01-07T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T17:59:57","slug":"video-games-are-becoming-more-like-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/01\/07\/video-games-are-becoming-more-like-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Games are becoming more like Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not in the way you think. The point concerns the relation between the connoisseur and the broader audience. My comment in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/gaming\/2009-12-29-vidgames200929_ST_N.htm\">Mike Snider&#8217;s USA Today review of 2009 in video games<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You are getting more of a rift between traditional (console) games and what people are actually playing in broad numbers,&#8221; Juul says, with tens of millions playing casual online games. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Video games are becoming normal and more like literature and film. You might have these connoisseurs who favor certain &#8216;novels,&#8217; and they may be out of tune with what the broad population plays.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not in the way you think. The point concerns the relation between the connoisseur and the broader audience. My comment in Mike Snider&#8217;s USA Today review of 2009 in video games: &#8220;You are getting more of a rift between traditional (console) games and what people are actually playing in broad numbers,&#8221; Juul says, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/01\/07\/video-games-are-becoming-more-like-movies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video Games are becoming more like Movies&#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-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}