Games, but knowing the high scores of friends have certainly changed the way I I suppose this goes back to the high score table from early arcade There is competition with the other players, of course,īut simply knowing that the game has depth fundamentally alters the way High-scoring Facebook friends that I began to search seriously for deeper It was only when I saw the status updates from my Time, so it felt obvious that Blitz would not promote deep skills or Played in a short time is necessarily less deep than a game played for a longer At the same time, it seems intuitively true that a game I enjoyed looking at the minute differencesīetween them, but from reviews and player reactions to these games, it was alsoĬlear that matching tile games are generally looked down upon as simple and Writing a history of matching tile games, which in turn meant playing dozens or When Iįirst picked up Blitz, I think I saw it as just a quite shallow The existence of the updated friend's high score table on Facebook. That is nominally single player, but for me has been completely determined by Has 11 million monthly players (Lowensohn 2010).įigure 1: Bejeweled Blitz (PopCap 2008) Getting into Blitzĭiscuss Bejeweled Blitz in a conversation because it is a game 'casual' video game (Juul 2007), yet Blitz uses the basic gameplay of Bejeweled to create a highly competitive and frantic playing experience.Īt the time of writing, the Facebook version of Blitz Traditional video-game playing audience as a non-challenging, second-rate That Bejeweled helped spawn has been held in low esteem by the The high score table is reset every week.īlitz is interesting because the match-3 game type Played mostly on Facebook, Blitz features a high score table with the ranked scores of the player's friends. Bejeweled Blitz (hereafter Blitz) is a 60-second version of the match-3 game Bejeweled (PopCap Games 2001). The following is the result of an internet-based conversation between theĪuthors about Bejeweled Blitz (PopCap Games 2008). 'Depth in one Minute: A Conversation about Bejeweled Blitz.' In Well Played 2.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning, edited by Drew Davidson.

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