{"id":8846,"date":"2026-07-29T01:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8846"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:31:27","slug":"archive-zaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8846","title":{"rendered":"Archive Zaro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ralph Padilla, a DH (graduate) student that I work with, gave a talk today about a neat project of his own, <a href=\"https:\/\/archivelaro.com\/behind-the-archive\">Archive Zaro<\/a>. The project is archiving video games from the Philippines. It has just launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This archive is part of an ongoing academic project on game preservation and digital heritage. It explores how stories, creative processes, and design histories of Filipino video games can be documented and studied without relying on commercial hosting or proprietary platforms. Each entry serves as both a cultural record and a research artifact, contributing to the broader understanding of how local game development reflects art, labor, and identity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Padilla, a DH (graduate) student that I work with, gave a talk today about a neat project of his own, Archive Zaro. The project is archiving video games from the Philippines. It has just launched. This archive is part of an ongoing academic project on game preservation and digital heritage. It explores how stories, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8846\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archive Zaro<\/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":[81,4,55,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-computer-games","category-crowdsourcing","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846","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=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8847,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions\/8847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}