{"id":113,"date":"2008-08-18T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T09:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-08-18T09:27:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T09:27:43","slug":"gamasutra-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/gamasutra-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamasutra articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a few really interesting articles on Gamasutra recently; it&#8217;s about time I took them out of my blog feed and put them here.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/3757\/the_state_of_the_casual_games_.php\" target=\"_blank\">State of the Casual Gaming Industry<\/a>  provides a good introduction to what are casual games, where the industry is now, and where it might be going in future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/3738\/emotion_engineering_a_scientific_.php\" target=\"_blank\">Emotion engineering: a scientific approach for understanding game appeal<\/a> presents a complex analysis of the ways in which the interactions that take place can affect the players&#8217; emotions. Includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/db_area\/images\/feature\/3738\/table4_full.png\" target=\"_blank\">table<\/a> that relates specific emotions to variables in the game. There isn&#8217;t much evidence to back up this theory (other than common sense) but I think it&#8217;s an interesting perspective nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>What do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/3720\/what_gamers_want_silver_gamers.php\" target=\"_blank\">older gamers<\/a> want? According to this article it&#8217;s repeat tutorials, printed manuals, legible text, removal of jargon, a wider variety of subject areas, family play, not having to stand up, a comfortable playing environment, collaborative online play at a distance, and shorter game length. (Although there is no indication of exactly how many people took part in this research or how generalisable it is.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a few really interesting articles on Gamasutra recently; it&#8217;s about time I took them out of my blog feed and put them here. The State of the Casual Gaming Industry provides a good introduction to what are&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/gamasutra-articles\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-1P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}