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A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
- ISBN13: 9780262013376
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The enormous popularity of the Nintendo Wii, Guitar Hero, and smaller games like Bejeweled or Zuma has turned the stereotype of the obsessed young male gamer on its head. Players of these casual games are not required to possess an intimate knowledge of video game history or to 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.
With this reinvention of video games, the game industry reconnects with a general audience. Many of today’s casual game players once enjoyed Pac-Man, Tetris, and other early games, only to drop out when video games became more time consuming and complex. For a long time, video games asked players to structure their lives to fit the demands of a game; with casual games, it is the game that is designed to fit into the lives of players. These flexible games make it possible for everyone to be a video game player.
Juul shows that it is only by understanding what a game requires of players, what players bring to a game, how the game industry works, and how video games have developed historically that we can understand what makes video games fun and why we choose to play (or not to play) them.
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Review by Federico Fasce for A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
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This book deeply explore the true meaning of the casual/hardcore gaming labels, unveiling myths and demonstrating why casual games are not just easier games. A must for everyone interested in games.
Review by Rask for A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
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A Casual Revolution is a nice attempt to explain a constantly changing product like gaming and to his credit the author does a good job of explaining at least one definition of the difference between casual and non-casual gaming and even points out how games can overlap between these two fields.
However throughout the entire book he gives half truths and blatant lies (he’s not trying to lie to be fair to the author he simply doesn’t know any better) as he tries to explain gaming when he blatantly tells the reader he hasn’t played much of any game spanning between pong and tetris up until the Wii’s release, even going as far as inferring that casual gaming didn’t make any progress between these two stages (he doesn’t say this, I just get that vibe from reading the book). To be quite honest this seems to be an outsiders (non-gamer for most of gaming’s growth, and a non-developer) looking in on a hobby he hasn’t participated in for around a decade and as such there are much better books out there (A book of lenses is a new one I particularly enjoyed if your looking for game design tips).
Do yourself a favor and look for a different book other then this unless you really want outdated information on casual gaming for some reason