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A casual revolution : reinventing video games and their players / Jesper Juul.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Juul, Jesper, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games--Psychological aspects.
- Video games.
- Video gamers--Psychology.
- Video gamers.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 252 pages : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How casual games like Guitar Hero, Bejeweled, and those for Nintendo Wii are expanding the audience for video games.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A Casual Revolution
- 2 What Is Casual?
- 3 All the Games You Played Before
- 4 Innovations and Clones: The Gradual Evolution of Downloadable Casual Games
- 5 Return to Player Space: The Success of Mimetic Interface Games
- 6 Social Meaning and Social Goals
- 7 Casual Play in a Hardcore Game
- 8 Players, Developers, and the Future of Video Games
- Appendix A: Player Survey
- Appendix B: Player Stories
- Appendix C: Developer Interviews
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-28580-0
- 1-282-69458-8
- 9786612694585
- 0-262-25896-X
- OCLC:
- 939263756
- Online:
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