{"id":8035,"date":"2022-03-28T00:47:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2022-03-28T00:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T00:47:13","slug":"people-make-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8035","title":{"rendered":"People Make Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Investigating Three Indie Superstars Accused of Emotional Abuse\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xDPzZkx0cPs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From a <a href=\"https:\/\/gamestudies.ca\/\">CGSA\/AC\u00c9V<\/a> Statement Against Exploitation and Oppression in Games Education and Industry a link to a video report People Make Games. The report documents emotional abuse in the education and indie game space. It deals with how leaders can create a toxic environment and how they can fail to take criticism seriously. A myth of the &#8220;auteur&#8221; in game design then protects the superstar leaders. Which is why they called the video &#8220;people make games&#8221; (not single auteurs.) Watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a CGSA\/AC\u00c9V Statement Against Exploitation and Oppression in Games Education and Industry a link to a video report People Make Games. The report documents emotional abuse in the education and indie game space. It deals with how leaders can create a toxic environment and how they can fail to take criticism seriously. A myth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People Make 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":[4,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computers-and-education","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035","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=8035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8036,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions\/8036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}