{"id":26150,"date":"2010-10-26T14:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-game-is-a-system-in-which-players-engage-in-an\/"},"modified":"2010-10-26T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T14:26:04","slug":"a-game-is-a-system-in-which-players-engage-in-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-game-is-a-system-in-which-players-engage-in-an\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome. (Salen + Zimmerman 2004, p80). It is useful to understand games in general.<br \/>\nWe can rapidly explore paper-based games.<br \/>\nWe can explore rules as interconnected systems.<br \/>\nWe can explore &ldquo;artificial conflict&rdquo;.<br \/>\nWe can explore knowable outcomes.<br \/>\nWe should remember fun, and joy.<br \/>\nAnd, in the cases of artificial conflict, we should remember emotional engagement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.p4games.org\/node\/26\">A productive definition of games | P4Games<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome. (Salen + Zimmerman 2004, p80). It is useful to understand games in general. We can rapidly explore paper-based games. We can explore rules as interconnected systems. We can explore &ldquo;artificial conflict&rdquo;. We can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6NM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}