{"id":1169,"date":"2013-11-03T17:05:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2013-11-03T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T22:05:42","slug":"getting-into-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Getting into Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son is a gamer he plays all types of games (card, board, live action and computers). He knows he wants to do &#8220;something&#8221; with computers when he heads off to college in a couple of years. \u00a0To help him figure it out he is taking a course on <em>The Foundations of Game Design<\/em> at our community college. He is particularly intrigued with the design of games; what motivates the player to keep going, strategy, scoring and leveling.<\/p>\n<p>He recently shared with me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/patv\/show\/extra-credits\" target=\"_blank\">Extra Credits<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/penny-arcade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Penny Arcade<\/a>. It is series of podcast on gaming and the game industry. \u00a0It is pretty informative and entertaining. \u00a0If you know a gamer in your life or are interested in the industry please pass them a long. \u00a0They are well worth watching. \u00a0I have learned a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son is a gamer he plays all types of games (card, board, live action and computers). He knows he wants to do &#8220;something&#8221; with computers when he heads off to college in a couple of years. \u00a0To help him figure it out he is taking a course on The Foundations of Game Design at our community college. He is particularly intrigued with the design of games; what motivates the player to keep going, strategy, scoring and leveling. He recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1169\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,26,27,31],"tags":[188,184,185,186,187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}