A Casual Revolution
Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
$70.86
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2012
Summary
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 vid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262517393 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262517396 |
| Author: | Jesper Juul |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2012 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | A Casual Revolution |
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…[F]or anyone working in the games industry or studying games and their role in popular culture, A Casual Revolution is a succinct and indispensable summary of the current state of video games.
– Stewart Woods * Game Studies *Let’s start with the hype. A Casual Revolution is terrific. A succinct, informative, thoughtful examination of the forces that have been, as its subtitle says, reinventing video games and their players. Oh, and on top of all that, it’s just plain fun to read.
* Tap-Repeatedly (5⁄5 stars) *About The Author
Jesper Juul
Jesper Juul is Associate Professor in the School of Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He is the author of Half-Real- Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds; A Casual Revolution- Reinventing Video Games and Their Players; and The Art of Failure- An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games, all published by the MIT Press.
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