{"id":6970,"date":"2018-11-02T22:06:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T22:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2018-11-02T22:06:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T22:06:36","slug":"%e2%80%8egoqueer-locative-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6970","title":{"rendered":"\u200eGoQueer Locative Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GoQueerScreen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GoQueerScreen-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GoQueerScreen-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GoQueerScreen-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GoQueerScreen-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GoQueerScreen.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u200eQueer places are, by definition, sites of accretion, where stories, memories, and experiences are gathered. Queer place, in particular, is reliant on ephemeral histories, personal moments and memories. GoQueer intends to integrate these personal archives with places for you to discover.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I recently downloaded and started playing the iOS version of <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/goqueer\/id1296673184?mt=8\">\u200eGoQueer from the App\u00a0Store<\/a>. It is a locative game from my colleague Dr. Maureen Engel.<\/p>\n<p>Engel reflected about this project in a talk on YouTube titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lFoS3VNb9E4\">Go Queer: A Ludic, Locative Media Experiment<\/a>. Engel nicely theorizes her game not once, but in a doubled set of reflections show how theorizing isn&#8217;t a step in project design, but continuous thinking-through.<\/p>\n<p>You can also see an article reflecting on this game by the title, <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1527476416669234\">Perverting Play: Theorizing a Queer Game Mechanic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200eQueer places are, by definition, sites of accretion, where stories, memories, and experiences are gathered. Queer place, in particular, is reliant on ephemeral histories, personal moments and memories. GoQueer intends to integrate these personal archives with places for you to discover. I recently downloaded and started playing the iOS version of \u200eGoQueer from the App\u00a0Store. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u200eGoQueer Locative Game<\/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":[4,10,72,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computers-and-education","category-geospatial","category-locative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","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=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6973,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}