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A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players

A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players

Juul, Jesper

Paperback

Games & Activities GeneralTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 0262517396
ISBN13: 9780262517393
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 17 2012
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.79 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
How casual games like Guitar Hero, Bejeweled, and those for Nintendo Wii are expanding the audience for video games.

We used to think that video games were mostly for young men, but with the success of the Nintendo Wii, and the proliferation of games in browsers, cell phone games, and social games video games changed changed fundamentally in the years from 2000 to 2010. These new casual games are now played by men and women, young and old. Players need not possess an intimate knowledge of video game history or devote weeks or months to play. At the same time, many players of casual games show a dedication and skill that is anything but casual. In A Casual Revolution, Jesper Juul describes this as a reinvention of video games, and of our image of video game players, and explores what this tells us about the players, the games, and their interaction.

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