{"id":1115,"date":"2013-04-16T12:35:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T19:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:45:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T07:45:36","slug":"games-as-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/games-as-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Games as Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphkoster.com\/2013\/04\/09\/a-letter-to-leigh\/\">this post<\/a> on Raph Koster&#8217;s blog.  It&#8217;s powerful, thoughtful, and emotional.  I&#8217;m not sure I have anything to add yet, but I wanted to refer people to his post because it captures a lot about the current independent games scene that I hadn&#8217;t recognized or put into words yet.  I&#8217;m also struck by his observation that a lot of recent games (both indie and AAA) are <em>rhetoric<\/em> rather than <em>dialetic<\/em>.  It&#8217;s a distinction I&#8217;m going to have to put a lot of thought into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to reading this post on Raph Koster&#8217;s blog. It&#8217;s powerful, thoughtful, and emotional. I&#8217;m not sure I have anything to add yet, but I wanted to refer people to his post because it captures a lot about the current independent games scene that I hadn&#8217;t recognized or put into words yet&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-designer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}