{"id":1798,"date":"2007-10-04T03:22:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2008-03-30T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T20:03:34","slug":"playing-the-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1798","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/playingGal-png.png\" id=\"image1797\" alt=\"Playing the Gallery Logo\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>I just gave a paper for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playingthegallery.ca\/\">Playing the Gallery<\/a> symposium organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcintoshgallery.ca\/pages\/home.asp\">McIntosh Gallery<\/a>, The University of Western Ontario. My paper was on &#8220;The Problem with Serious Games&#8221; where I worked with definitions of play to work out the tensions between playing games and serious work.<\/p>\n<p>Serious Games (not serious gaming) is a label being used to self identify and authorize games designed for non-entertainment purposes. In 2002 the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriousgames.org\/index2.html\">Serious Games Initiative<\/a> was founded at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. The CMP Game Group has been running semi-academic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriousgamessummit.com\/\">Serious Game Summits<\/a> and a web site <a href=\"http:\/\/seriousgamessource.com\/\">Serious Game Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just gave a paper for the Playing the Gallery symposium organized by the McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario. My paper was on &#8220;The Problem with Serious Games&#8221; where I worked with definitions of play to work out the tensions between playing games and serious work. Serious Games (not serious gaming) is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1798\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playing the Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}