{"id":1533,"date":"2011-07-07T13:09:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2011-07-07T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:09:49","slug":"bbcs-the-code-mathstv-gamearg-pre-run-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/07\/bbcs-the-code-mathstv-gamearg-pre-run-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Code&#8221; maths\/TV game\/ARG: pre-run commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Code is about to start, and <a href=\"http:\/\/sixtostart.com\/onetoread\/2011\/the-code-whats-new\/\">Adrian&#8217;s on good form here<\/a> with some concise bashing of ARG-design stereotypes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;the \u2018inverted pyramid\u2019 model of engagement for ARGs and transmedia! But I don\u2019t like it<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nfeels like a post-facto justification of why only a few people get really engaged in most projects by suggesting that what you\u2019re making is just way too awesome\/hard for the public, who\u2019ll have to make do with lightweight stuff (yes, like Flash games).&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s been banging this drum since PerplexCity, but IMHO there&#8217;s been comparitively little success. He&#8217;s long been wrestling with ways to make that actually work in practice, as opposed to a believable bit of theory. From the tone of this blog post, I&#8217;m pegging this as &#8220;one to watch&#8221;, and see if there&#8217;s a big step forward.<\/p>\n<p>Something else to highlight, too; something *I&#8217;ve* been banging on about for a long time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The fact is, most people are smarter and more engaged than you might think.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>4 games, 4 *educational* games, on the BBC (who publishes some of the best pre-school games \/ learning content in the world). Fingers crossed this does something new and novel *and which actually works* :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Code is about to start, and Adrian&#8217;s on good form here with some concise bashing of ARG-design stereotypes: &#8220;the \u2018inverted pyramid\u2019 model of engagement for ARGs and transmedia! But I don\u2019t like it &#8230; feels like a post-facto justification of why only a few people get really engaged in most projects by suggesting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}