{"id":45,"date":"2003-09-30T15:28:51","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T13:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=45"},"modified":"2003-09-30T15:28:51","modified_gmt":"2003-09-30T13:28:51","slug":"ideological-games-september-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/09\/30\/ideological-games-september-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideological Games: September 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gonzalo Frasca?s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgaming.com\">Newsgaming<\/a> outfit has posted the <a href= \"http:\/\/www.newsgaming.com\/games\/index12.htm\" >September 12th<\/a> game.<\/p>\n<p>It is quite interesting but I think it has the problem that I wrote about earlier, that its ideology has a cartoonish clearness (the war on terror is evil, end of story). I like to see doubt in things like this. As has been discussed on <a href= \"http:\/\/www.gamegirladvance.com\/archives\/2003\/09\/29\/newsgaming_september_12.html\" >Game Girl Advance<\/a>, the &#8220;terrorists&#8221; in the game are really, really nice.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t one make a game that mirrors the weird ambiguities of the real world: being critical of the war on terror <em>while<\/em> recognizing that fundamentalist political Islam is fascism by another name?<\/p>\n<p>[Note added later: I  begin to wonder whether some people would consider the last statement to be controversial? Is it?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonzalo Frasca?s Newsgaming outfit has posted the September 12th game. It is quite interesting but I think it has the problem that I wrote about earlier, that its ideology has a cartoonish clearness (the war on terror is evil, end of story). I like to see doubt in things like this. As has been discussed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/09\/30\/ideological-games-september-12th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ideological Games: September 12th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}