{"id":7136,"date":"2019-06-06T22:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2019-06-06T22:19:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:19:05","slug":"windows-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7136","title":{"rendered":"WINDOWS 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Windows93.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7137\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Windows93-300x249-1.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot of Windows 93\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>hug + hack = infinity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At one of the talks at <a href=\"http:\/\/gamestudies.ca\/\">CGSA<\/a> 2019 I learned about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windows93.net\/\">WINDOWS93<\/a>. It is an emulation of a non-existant early version of Windows that looks a bit like Windows 95, but has all sorts of joke applications in it.<\/p>\n<p>This and other examples of interactive games that mimic everyday software was presented by Benjamin Unterman in a paper titled, &#8220;Games Imitating Life.&#8221; Unterman theorized that there are three types of such games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Realistic interface<\/strong> designs where a game pretends to be a real interface like that of a cell phone, but you end up messaging fictional people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Complicit designs\u00a0<\/strong>use realistic interfaces to bring people into a satire or joke interactive. I think Windows93 would be such an example.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antagonistic designs<\/strong> pretend to be some productivity tool, but they subvert the interface as you play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My conference notes for <a href=\"https:\/\/philosophi.ca\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CSDH2019\">Congress 2019 are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hug + hack = infinity At one of the talks at CGSA 2019 I learned about WINDOWS93. It is an emulation of a non-existant early version of Windows that looks a bit like Windows 95, but has all sorts of joke applications in it. This and other examples of interactive games that mimic everyday software &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WINDOWS 93<\/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":[4,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-conference","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","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=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7139,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}