{"id":3011,"date":"2013-12-13T16:19:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2013-12-13T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:19:51","slug":"gamesthatteach-conways-life-gamified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/13\/gamesthatteach-conways-life-gamified\/","title":{"rendered":"GamesThatTeach: Conway&#8217;s Life, gamified&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick and simple conversion of Life into an actual game (instead of a mathematical &#8220;game&#8221;):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thomashunter.name\/games\/strategic-game-of-life\/\">https:\/\/thomashunter.name\/games\/strategic-game-of-life\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Life&#8221; makes for a terrible game: it&#8217;s far too complicated to translate between &#8220;Thing I want to achieve&#8221; and &#8220;how I would choose\/use\/combine the pieces at hand to achieve it&#8221;\n<li>&#8230;Life using a library might work better, or Life with more human-friendly rules\n<li>Even in a simple form, the game aspects work quite well: you quickly start to learn *if you have a window open to Wikipedia or similar* how to remember and recreate the classic shapes\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick and simple conversion of Life into an actual game (instead of a mathematical &#8220;game&#8221;): https:\/\/thomashunter.name\/games\/strategic-game-of-life\/ A couple of observations: &#8220;Life&#8221; makes for a terrible game: it&#8217;s far too complicated to translate between &#8220;Thing I want to achieve&#8221; and &#8220;how I would choose\/use\/combine the pieces at hand to achieve it&#8221; &#8230;Life using a library might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011"}],"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=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}