{"id":5791,"date":"2015-05-17T23:38:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T23:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2015-05-17T23:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T23:38:32","slug":"why-empathy-is-the-next-big-thing-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5791","title":{"rendered":"Why empathy is the next big thing in video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBC Spark with Nora Young had a segment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/spark\/286-empathy-games-intangible-art-and-more-1.3073000\/why-empathy-is-the-next-big-thing-in-video-games-1.3074676\">Why empathy is the next big thing in video games<\/a>. The category seems to map onto &#8220;persuasive games&#8221; or &#8220;art games.&#8221; Some of the games mentioned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/riotsimulator.org\/\">RIOT<\/a> &#8211; a forthcoming game where you experience being in riots<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weareminority.com\/spirits-of-spring\/\">Spirits of Spring<\/a> &#8211; about a &#8220;young native in a mythical land&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weareminority.com\/papo-yo\/\">Papo and Yo<\/a> &#8211; about alchoholism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ian Bogost talks on the segment and makes the argument that in empathy games one feels a different type of empathy than in narrative media. When you make the choices you have something at stake. He also made a point about empathy with systems that I didn&#8217;t quite get. He talked about systems oriented game design where you get exposed to a different system or environment and learn about it through playing. The idea is that by playing someone running a fast food chain you learn about the system of fast food. You learn to empathize with the fast food mogul in order to understand the constraints those systems are under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC Spark with Nora Young had a segment on Why empathy is the next big thing in video games. The category seems to map onto &#8220;persuasive games&#8221; or &#8220;art games.&#8221; Some of the games mentioned: RIOT &#8211; a forthcoming game where you experience being in riots Spirits of Spring &#8211; about a &#8220;young native in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5791\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why empathy is the next big thing in video games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-media-and-news","category-philosophy-of-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}