Time: Wednesday, January 13, 6-8 pm
\nLocation: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC)
\nRoom 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)<\/p>\n
The Rise of Casual Games<\/strong><\/p>\n It seems like only yesterday that video games were considered the province of\u00a0males between 12 and 35. Yet with the launch of the Nintendo Wii, with the\u00a0proliferation of casual games in browsers, with music games and cell phone\u00a0games, video games seem to have broken out of their cultural niche. In this talk I will present a short history of the rise of casual games, and discuss its implications for game developers, player, and for the future of video games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Time: Wednesday, January 13, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) The Rise of Casual Games It seems like only yesterday that video games were considered the province of\u00a0males between 12 and 35. Yet with the launch of the Nintendo Wii, with the\u00a0proliferation of casual … Continue reading “Speaking at USC, Los Angeles January 13”<\/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-867","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\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}