{"id":26956,"date":"2014-11-03T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/n-2010-vincent-ocasla-a-young-architecture\/"},"modified":"2014-11-03T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:05:42","slug":"n-2010-vincent-ocasla-a-young-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/n-2010-vincent-ocasla-a-young-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>n 2010, Vincent Ocasla, a young architecture student in the Philippines, posted a video on YouTube announcing that he had \u201cbeaten\u201d SimCity. His city, Magnasanti, was the product of three and a half years of planning and construction on the SimCity 2000 platform. News of his triumph quickly spread across the Internet. But many wondered: what did it mean to say that someone had \u201cbeaten\u201d SimCity? <\/p>\n<p>By analyzing the game\u2019s algorithm for modular growth, Ocasla\u2019s plan optimized the distances between resources, transportation infrastructure, and the energy grid to build the most densely populated city in SimCity history. Achieved at the cost of social repression and totalitarian control, Ocasla\u2019s victory was a numerical one. His goal was not the quality of his Sims\u2019 lives, but the quantification of technocratic efficiency; his intention, to critique the lethality of the game\u2019s managerial assumptions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2014\/10\/les-simerables\/\">Les Simerables | Jacobin<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n 2010, Vincent Ocasla, a young architecture student in the Philippines, posted a video on YouTube announcing that he had \u201cbeaten\u201d SimCity. His city, Magnasanti, was the product of three and a half years of planning and construction on the SimCity 2000 platform. News of his triumph quickly spread across the Internet. But many wondered: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26956","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-70M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26956","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=26956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}