{"id":3450,"date":"2011-01-23T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T00:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2011-01-23T19:49:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T00:49:02","slug":"shigeru-miyamoto-nintendo%e2%80%99s-man-behind-mario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo\u2019s man behind Mario"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New Yorker has a great story about Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo\u2019s man behind Mario<\/a>. Written by Nick Paumgarten the story is titled “Master of Play; The many worlds of a video-game artist.” (December 20, 2010.) The story nicely weaves an interview with Miyamoto into an introduction to game design.<\/p>\n

Fishermen have a saying, in reference to the addictive sensation of a fish hitting your line: \u201cThe tug is the drug.\u201d Gamers, as video-game players are known, thrill to \u201cthe pull,\u201d that mysterious ability that good games have of making you want to play them, and keep playing them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On a related note, Susan pointed me to a satirical about how Waiting for Godot for Wii breaks first week sales records<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Yorker has a great story about Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo\u2019s man behind Mario. Written by Nick Paumgarten the story is titled “Master of Play; The many worlds of a video-game artist.” (December 20, 2010.) The story nicely weaves an interview with Miyamoto into an introduction to game design. Fishermen have a saying, in reference … Continue reading Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo\u2019s man behind Mario<\/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-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","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=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}