{"id":1785,"date":"2010-07-16T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/07\/16\/links-for-2010-07-16\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T12:01:53","slug":"links-for-2010-07-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/07\/16\/links-for-2010-07-16\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2010-07-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\"><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/17\/fashion\/17games.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all\">With Games They Invent, Artists Unleash the Athlete Within &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;When artists become interested in sport, \u201cthey become terribly anxious that they could be confused with the quote-unquote normal fans,\u201d said Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University and author of \u201cIn Praise of Athletic Beauty\u201d (Belknap Press, 2006). \u201cSo intellectuals, when they play games, they cannot just play normal games. It has to be intellectualized.\u201d&#8221; Guilty as charged I guess. But when are these &#8216;new sports&#8217; art, when are they design and when are they just mucking about?<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/art\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/play\">play<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2010\/07\/13\/dark-futures-part-5-clint-hocking\/\">Dark Futures Part 5: Clint Hocking | Rock, Paper, Shotgun<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;We need first to acknowledge that today\u2019s players are aware of the magic circle \u2013 they are often willfully and happily partially within it and playing conceptually with their sense of presence therein at any given moment, regardless of how immersive the game is. Second, we need to offer them more than the mere ability to enter and exit that circle. We need to let them touch it, manipulate it, and explore and test its limits.&#8221; I object to some of the stereotypes in this essay, and have trouble grasping what is meant by the term &#8220;immersive sim&#8221;. But I can only agree with the point that anything of importance in a game should be in something a player can act on. The rest, frankly, is dressing.<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/agency\">agency<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/play\">play<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/immersion\">immersion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/simulations\">simulations<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/DeusEx\">DeusEx<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Games They Invent, Artists Unleash the Athlete Within &#8211; NYTimes.com &#8220;When artists become interested in sport, \u201cthey become terribly anxious that they could be confused with the quote-unquote normal fans,\u201d said Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University and author of \u201cIn Praise of Athletic Beauty\u201d (Belknap Press, 2006). \u201cSo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/07\/16\/links-for-2010-07-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2010-07-16<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}