{"id":37564,"date":"2011-12-07T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/humanegames-that-idea-reminds-wright-of-a\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:33:13","slug":"humanegames-that-idea-reminds-wright-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/humanegames-that-idea-reminds-wright-of-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-37564 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/humanegames-that-idea-reminds-wright-of-a\/attachment\/37565\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lvu8vczBkM1qescwho1_400-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/humanegames.tumblr.com\/post\/13873342036\/that-idea-reminds-wright-of-a-sci-fi-story-by\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">humanegames<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That idea reminds Wright of a sci-fi story by Bruce Sterling called Maneki Neko, named after Japanese gift cats. The story is about the \u201cgift economy\u201d where people contribute gifts to strangers and in return get back everything that they need. People can earn \u201ckarmic points\u201d that can be redeemed, a common feature of social games on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p>Wright sees this vision for a game as the logical extension of his game career. He moved from simulating and solving the problems of cities with SimCity to solving individual or family problems with The Sims. Now he is moving not toward solving the problems of a simulated person, but solving the problems of a real person while entertaining them too. \u201cWhen you look at the arc of the games I have done, starting from SimCity, they are each mining a deeper level of creativity,\u201d Wright said. \u201cAnd they are more focused on the individual over time.\u201d Hence, Wright is now in the age of personal gaming, where the \u201cuser becomes the game.\u201d (via <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/11\/16\/will-wright-hivemind\/?volt=0\">Inside Will Wright\u2019s next big game: HiveMind (exclusive) | VentureBeat<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>humanegames: That idea reminds Wright of a sci-fi story by Bruce Sterling called Maneki Neko, named after Japanese gift cats. The story is about the \u201cgift economy\u201d where people contribute gifts to strangers and in return get back everything that they need. People can earn \u201ckarmic points\u201d that can be redeemed, a common feature of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":[1539],"class_list":["post-37564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9LS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564","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=37564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37566,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564\/revisions\/37566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}