{"id":3281,"date":"2015-03-31T06:47:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2015-03-31T06:47:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:47:47","slug":"videogames-for-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2015\/03\/videogames-for-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogames for Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VFHcvr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VFHcvr-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Videogames for Humans book cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VFHcvr-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VFHcvr.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Twine is a tool for making interactive fiction in the form of web pages.<\/p>\n<p>A new anthology curated by Merritt Kopas called <em>Videogames For Humans<\/em> &#8220;puts Twine authors, literary writers, and games critics into conversation with one another\u2019s work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBehind the fluorescent veil of modern big-business video games, a quiet revolution is happening, and it\u2019s centered on a tool called Twine. Taken up by nontraditional game authors to describe distinctly nontraditional subjects\u2014from struggles with depression, explorations of queer identity, and analyses of the world of modern sex and dating to visions of breeding crustacean horses in a dystopian future\u2014the Twine movement to date has created space for those who have previously been voiceless within games culture to tell their own stories, as well as to invent new visions outside of traditional channels of commerce.<\/p>\n<p><em>Videogames for Humans<\/em>, curated and introduced by Twine author and games theorist merritt kopas, puts Twine authors, literary writers, and games critics into conversation with one another\u2019s work, reacting to, elaborating on, and being affected by the same. The result is an unprecedented kind of book about video games, one that will jump-start the discussions that will define the games culture of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instarbooks.com\/books\/videogames-for-humans.html\">Videogames for Humans<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Book Launch Party:  <\/p>\n<p>Monday, 4\/20\/2015 at 7PM<br \/>\nBabycastles, 137 W. 14th St, New York, NY 10011<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/babycastles.com\/\">babycastles.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twinery.org\/\">twinery.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twine_(software)\">Twine (software) @ Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/03\/30\/videogames-for-humans-a-speci.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twine is a tool for making interactive fiction in the form of web pages. A new anthology curated by Merritt Kopas called Videogames For Humans &#8220;puts Twine authors, literary writers, and games critics into conversation with one another\u2019s work&#8221;. Behind the fluorescent veil of modern big-business video games, a quiet revolution is happening, and it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,16,252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-game-design","category-twine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}