{"id":591,"date":"2004-09-26T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T23:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=591"},"modified":"2004-09-26T19:33:22","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T23:33:22","slug":"defining-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Defining Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Miller, a CEO of a game studio, in his blog <a title=\"The problem with games\" href=\"http:\/\/dukenukem.typepad.com\/game_matters\/2004\/01\/the_problem_wit.html\">Game Matters<\/a> discussed definitions of games from the book Rules of Play. He ends with a definition of his own,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A game is a structured set of fun problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What makes this post interesting are the number of comments &#8211; the dialolgue that follows. In some ways the dialogue circles the family of resemblances between games. The play at defining is game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Miller, a CEO of a game studio, in his blog Game Matters discussed definitions of games from the book Rules of Play. He ends with a definition of his own, A game is a structured set of fun problems. What makes this post interesting are the number of comments &#8211; the dialolgue that follows. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defining Games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}