{"id":3694,"date":"2011-06-07T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T21:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2011-06-07T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T21:10:34","slug":"creating-a-newsgame-bin-laden-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3694","title":{"rendered":"Creating A Newsgame &#8211; Bin Laden Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/34754\/Feature_Creating_A_Newsgame__Bin_Laden_Raid.php\"><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/binLadenRaid6.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gamasutra has a nice article about creating a newsgame, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/34754\/Feature_Creating_A_Newsgame__Bin_Laden_Raid.php\">Creating A Newsgame &#8211; Bin Laden Raid<\/a>. Gonzalo Frasca of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludology.org\/my_games.html\">September 12th<\/a> fame coined the work &#8220;newsgame&#8221; for a game that responds to current events. This Gamasutra article describes how Jeremy Alessi quickly created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgameplay.com\/?p=36\">Raid on Osama bin Laden Compound<\/a> where you can replay the raid.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say its a particularly gripping game, nor does it feel accurate, but there is something disconcerting about playing a recreation of such a raid. Does it give a better context for the event? I&#8217;m not sure, but I do think the idea of games responding to events is worth pursuing. Time to read Ian Bogost&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Newsgames-Journalism-Play-Ian-Bogost\/dp\/0262014874\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1305850084&amp;sr=8-1\">Newsgames<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra has a nice article about creating a newsgame, Creating A Newsgame &#8211; Bin Laden Raid. Gonzalo Frasca of September 12th fame coined the work &#8220;newsgame&#8221; for a game that responds to current events. This Gamasutra article describes how Jeremy Alessi quickly created Raid on Osama bin Laden Compound where you can replay the raid. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creating A Newsgame &#8211; Bin Laden Raid<\/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-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","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=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}