{"id":6064,"date":"2016-03-07T11:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T11:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2016-03-07T11:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T11:05:27","slug":"passage-a-gamma256-video-game-by-jason-rohrer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6064","title":{"rendered":"Passage: a Gamma256 video game by Jason Rohrer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/passagescreen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6070\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/passagescreen-300x52.png\" alt=\"passagescreen\" width=\"300\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/passagescreen-300x52.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/passagescreen.png 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had reason to revisit <a href=\"http:\/\/hcsoftware.sourceforge.net\/passage\/\">Passage<\/a> the game of life and death by Jason Rohrer. Along with the game he provided a <a href=\"http:\/\/hcsoftware.sourceforge.net\/passage\/statement.html\">Creator&#8217;s Statement<\/a> describes the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Passage<\/i> is meant to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memento_mori\">memento mori<\/a> game. It presents an entire life, from young adulthood through old age and death, in the span of five minutes. Of course, it&#8217;s a <i>game<\/i>, not a painting or a film, so the choices that you make as the player are crucial. There&#8217;s no &#8220;right&#8221; way to play <i>Passage<\/i>, just as there&#8217;s no right way to interpret it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What could be more emotional than one&#8217;s own death? For more on the game and Rohrer see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a5303\/future-of-video-game-design-1208\/\">The Video-Game Programmer Saving Our 21st-Century Souls<\/a> from Esquire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had reason to revisit Passage the game of life and death by Jason Rohrer. Along with the game he provided a Creator&#8217;s Statement describes the game. Passage is meant to be a memento mori game. It presents an entire life, from young adulthood through old age and death, in the span of five minutes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Passage: a Gamma256 video game by Jason Rohrer<\/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":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-digital-and-interactive-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064","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=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6072,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}