{"id":889,"date":"2009-07-16T09:04:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=889"},"modified":"2009-07-16T09:04:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:04:47","slug":"rules-of-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/07\/16\/rules-of-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"rules of engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning to play means learning another person&#8217;s set of rules. Or writing the rules together with them. <\/p>\n<p>Playing sports is a terrific way to experience the benefits of compromise (peace, profits) on a small scale and that&#8217;s where real change happens.<\/p>\n<p>Video games offer a similar opportunity for co-operation. Yes, there are &#8220;death squad&#8221; games but then there&#8217;s the wildly popular Super Mario Galaxy \u2013\u00a04m units sold in the U.S. alone. Nintendo has made a fortune creating progressive games. That&#8217;s quite remarkable. Because profits, without peace, are pretty much useless.<\/p>\n<p>And the market in which video games are consumed is evolving quickly. <\/p>\n<p>Today, I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_jZVE5uF24Q\">a very nicely done<\/a> movie trailer for a book. Yes, a movie trailer for a book \u2013 on a popular video sharing web site. That&#8217;s a true (not forced) multimedia experience. The book itself is noteworthy for being a playful genre: the remix. And commercially successful. (i.e., Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.) <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, the U.S. will develop its own form of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/20\/world\/asia\/20japan.html\">sms novels<\/a>. And the electronic novel which breaks through\u00a0will be written together by all its players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning to play means learning another person&#8217;s set of rules. Or writing the rules together with them. Playing sports is a terrific way to experience the benefits of compromise (peace, profits) on a small scale and that&#8217;s where real change happens. Video games offer a similar opportunity for co-operation. Yes, there are &#8220;death squad&#8221; games&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}