{"id":1137,"date":"2011-01-04T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2011-01-05T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:08:08","slug":"salman-rushdie-on-video-games-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/01\/04\/salman-rushdie-on-video-games-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Salman Rushdie on Video Games &#038; Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve seen several references to Salman Rushdie&#8217;s apparent <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">love for<\/span> love-hate relationship to video games. As I recall, he professed to being a heavy game player during his years in hiding, and he has recently <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703945904575644940111605862.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_lifeStyle\">declared his passion for <em>Angry Birds<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here he <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/25129\">discusses storytelling and video games<\/a>. A bit on the short side, but he understands Rockstar&#8217;s typical mostly-linear + sandbox game structure and puts in the obligatory Borges reference.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=724249821001&amp;playerID=651017566001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAGuNzXFE~,qu1BWJRU7c26MMkbB19ukwmFB5ysvYz5&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=724249821001&amp;playerID=651017566001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAGuNzXFE~,qu1BWJRU7c26MMkbB19ukwmFB5ysvYz5&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" name=\"flashObj\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" flashvars=\"videoId=724249821001&amp;playerID=651017566001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAGuNzXFE~,qu1BWJRU7c26MMkbB19ukwmFB5ysvYz5&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve seen several references to Salman Rushdie&#8217;s apparent love for love-hate relationship to video games. As I recall, he professed to being a heavy game player during his years in hiding, and he has recently declared his passion for Angry Birds. Here he discusses storytelling and video games. A bit on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/01\/04\/salman-rushdie-on-video-games-storytelling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Salman Rushdie on Video Games &#038; Storytelling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}