{"id":31539,"date":"2011-01-07T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-you-play-a-game-what-youre-really-doing-is-2\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:00:07","slug":"when-you-play-a-game-what-youre-really-doing-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-you-play-a-game-what-youre-really-doing-is-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When you play a game, what you\u2019re really doing is enacting some role inside of a simulated world that has particular rules. We\u2019re not necessarily looking for a simple answer when we play, but rather to see the consequences of different approaches. Kind of coming to grips with that ambiguity in the world is something that we would do well to, to embrace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Ian Bogost, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/transcripts\/2010\/12\/31\/04\">On The Media: Transcript of \u201cThe Future of Gaming\u201d (December 31, 2010)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(the rest of the article can safely be ignored since it\u2019s just Lucifer and Beelzebub being hysterical about gamification again)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you play a game, what you\u2019re really doing is enacting some role inside of a simulated world that has particular rules. We\u2019re not necessarily looking for a simple answer when we play, but rather to see the consequences of different approaches. Kind of coming to grips with that ambiguity in the world is something [&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":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8cH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31539","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=31539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}