{"id":2028,"date":"2011-09-07T20:59:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T00:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2011-09-07T20:59:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T00:59:43","slug":"is-world-of-warcraft-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/is-world-of-warcraft-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Is World of Warcraft a game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m back in school and taking an English (!) course called Video Games as\/and Literature. We started out by talking about the definition of a game.\u00a0 The first one we looked at was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.&#8221; &#8211; Sulen and Zimmerman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By that definition, is World of Warcraft a game?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post my thoughts (and the thoughts some of my classmates had) in a separate entry later this week, but wanted to hear what you guys had to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m back in school and taking an English (!) course called Video Games as\/and Literature. We started out by talking about the definition of a game.\u00a0 The first one we looked at was this: &#8220;A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}