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Summary:

How casual games like Guitar Hero, Bejeweled, and those for Nintendo Wii are expanding the audience for video games.

Table of Contents:

• A casual revolution
• What is casual?
• All the games you played before
• Innovations and clones: the gradual evolution of downloadable casual games
• Return to player space: the success of mimetic interface games
• Social meaning and social goals
• Casual play in a hardcore game
• Players, developers, and the future of video games.

Author/Creator:

Juul, Jesper, 1970-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A casual revolution: reinventing video games and their players [by Juul, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Casual revolution [by Juul, J.] (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010 — ISBN 9780262013376; LCCN 2009009091; OCLC Number 313365654)

Subjects:

Video games — Psychological aspects

Video gamers — Psychology

Video games

Video gamers

Psychology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GV1469.34.P79 J88 2010eb

ISBNs:

9780262258968 (electronic bk.)
026225896X (electronic bk.)
9780262013376 (hardcover, alk. paper)
0262013371 (hardcover, alk. paper)
1282694588
9781282694583
9780262517393 [Invalid]
0262517396 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

505261026