{"id":2083,"date":"2014-04-21T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/play-is-the-unknown-and-the-uncontrollable-and-by\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:48","slug":"play-is-the-unknown-and-the-uncontrollable-and-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/play-is-the-unknown-and-the-uncontrollable-and-by\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Play is the unknown and the uncontrollable, and by building an ontology based on designer-centric reason, the proceduralists eliminate the myth and the ritual from play, and encourage an instrumental approach to games that is exclusively guided by the rules, norms and processes embedded in the game system.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamestudies.org\/1103\/articles\/sicart_ap\">Game Studies &#8211; Against Procedurality<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Revisiting Sicart on \u201cthe proceduralists\u201d and quite enjoyed it. There are many seeds here for a form of \u201cplayer-centric\u201d applied game design which allows for creative, generative play.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play is the unknown and the uncontrollable, and by building an ontology based on designer-centric reason, the proceduralists eliminate the myth and the ritual from play, and encourage an instrumental approach to games that is exclusively guided by the rules, norms and processes embedded in the game system. Game Studies &#8211; Against Procedurality Revisiting Sicart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/play-is-the-unknown-and-the-uncontrollable-and-by\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","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=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}