{"id":281,"date":"2006-10-03T18:01:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=281"},"modified":"2006-10-03T18:01:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:01:04","slug":"ghost-cricket-pac-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/10\/03\/ghost-cricket-pac-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Cricket Pac-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research answering a seldomly posed question: What happens if you let real insects control the ghosts in a game of Pac-Man?<\/p>\n<p>This: <a href=\"http:\/\/pong.hku.nl\/%7Ewim\/bugman.htm\">Animal Controlled Computer Games: Playing Pac-Man against Real Crickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pac-Man w\/ crickets\" alt=\"Pac-Man w\/ crickets\" src=\"http:\/\/pong.hku.nl\/%7Ewim\/bugman\/game.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My feeling is that game balancing could be improved by selective breeding of the crickets, which I hope Wim van Eck will have time for in a future project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research answering a seldomly posed question: What happens if you let real insects control the ghosts in a game of Pac-Man? This: Animal Controlled Computer Games: Playing Pac-Man against Real Crickets. My feeling is that game balancing could be improved by selective breeding of the crickets, which I hope Wim van Eck will have time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/10\/03\/ghost-cricket-pac-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ghost Cricket Pac-Man&#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-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}