{"id":120,"date":"2004-09-25T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=120"},"modified":"2004-09-25T18:29:53","modified_gmt":"2004-09-25T16:29:53","slug":"be-john-kerry-kuma-war-gets-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/09\/25\/be-john-kerry-kuma-war-gets-political\/","title":{"rendered":"BE John Kerry:  Kuma War gets political"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest twist in the serious game department: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kumawar.com\/\">Kuma War<\/a> is about to launch an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kumawar.com\/Kerry\/screenshots.php?PHPSESSID=492dbd3c2767f3b69c072de7ace3c765\">episode based on John Kerry&#8217;s much-discussed Vietnam heroics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News.com has a writeup <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Game+puts+players+in+Kerrys+boat\/2100-1028_3-5381638.html?tag=nefd.top\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What does a game mean? I wonder if games are persuasive when they represent historical events. After all, the game is likely to have several possible outcomes, and the outcome you want for the John Kerry game probably depends on what outcome would fit your pre-existing convictions?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t exactly have a background in empirical research, but I think it would be really interesting with some studies to see if a game can change people&#8217;s minds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest twist in the serious game department: Kuma War is about to launch an episode based on John Kerry&#8217;s much-discussed Vietnam heroics. News.com has a writeup here. What does a game mean? I wonder if games are persuasive when they represent historical events. After all, the game is likely to have several possible outcomes, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/09\/25\/be-john-kerry-kuma-war-gets-political\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BE John Kerry:  Kuma War gets political&#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-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","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=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}