{"id":989,"date":"2010-04-19T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=989"},"modified":"2010-04-21T20:43:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:43:48","slug":"a-casual-revolution-on-of-five-essenetial-books-on-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/04\/19\/a-casual-revolution-on-of-five-essenetial-books-on-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"A Casual Revolution one of Five Essential Books on Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In The New Yorker, Jamin Brophy-Warren lists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/casualrevolution\/\">A Casual Revolution<\/a> as one of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2010\/04\/five-essential-books-on-video-games.html\"> five essential books on video games<\/a>. In good company with Huizinga, Caillois, James Paul Gee and Tom Bissell.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To combat the idea that the only people who play games are teenage males  and housemothers, Jesper Juul\u2019s \u201c<a onclick=\"s_objectID=&quot;http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Casual-Revolution-Reinventing-Video-Players\/dp\/0262013371\/_1&quot;;return  this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Casual-Revolution-Reinventing-Video-Players\/dp\/0262013371\/\">A  Casual Revolution<\/a>\u201d is a deftly argued and thoroughly researched  recommendation. With the advent of the Nintendo\u2019s Wii and social games  like FarmVille on Facebook, video games of many shapes and sizes have  become standard fare as swaths of previously ignored players now find  themselves with controllers in hand. The result has been a muddling of  the archetypes of \u201chardcore\u201d and \u201ccasual\u201d players. Juul, the visiting  professor at New York University\u2019s Game Center, paints a world of  middle-aged women trying to kick fifty-hour-a-week-video-game habits and  young professional men only clocking a few hours a week on their Xbox  360s before shuttling off to their cubicles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The New Yorker, Jamin Brophy-Warren lists A Casual Revolution as one of the five essential books on video games. In good company with Huizinga, Caillois, James Paul Gee and Tom Bissell. To combat the idea that the only people who play games are teenage males and housemothers, Jesper Juul\u2019s \u201cA Casual Revolution\u201d is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/04\/19\/a-casual-revolution-on-of-five-essenetial-books-on-video-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Casual Revolution one of Five Essential Books on Video Games&#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-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}