{"id":204,"date":"2005-08-13T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=204"},"modified":"2005-08-13T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T10:32:30","slug":"the-message-is-paper-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/08\/13\/the-message-is-paper-thin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Message is Paper-Thin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate has a <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2124363\/\">short article on Islamist video games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you ignore the titles of the Ummah Defense games and the occasional in-game messages?&#8221;Alhamdulillah, You Destroyed the Command Ship!&#8221;?it&#8217;s impossible to tell that you&#8217;re playing an &#8220;Islamic game.&#8221; When I destroyed the third of the four command ships controlling the &#8220;Flying Evil Robot Armada&#8221; in the first Ummah Defense, I didn&#8217;t ruminate on whether my real-life allegiance should be with the robots. I just thought, only one more ship to go!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Same old problem: It&#8217;s hard to place or identify a clear message in the game mechanics, but in many game forms, the player eventually only really cares about the game mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate has a short article on Islamist video games. If you ignore the titles of the Ummah Defense games and the occasional in-game messages?&#8221;Alhamdulillah, You Destroyed the Command Ship!&#8221;?it&#8217;s impossible to tell that you&#8217;re playing an &#8220;Islamic game.&#8221; When I destroyed the third of the four command ships controlling the &#8220;Flying Evil Robot Armada&#8221; in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/08\/13\/the-message-is-paper-thin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Message is Paper-Thin&#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-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}