{"id":426,"date":"2013-07-16T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.digital-cultures.net\/gamification\/?p=426"},"modified":"2013-07-16T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T17:39:00","slug":"biotic-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/uncategorized\/biotic-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Biotic Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks Daphne Dragona<\/a> for forwarding this interesting topic<\/a>.
\nI remember a line from a Hansi Lang pop song that Ludic Society member Margarete Jahrmann used to quote:\u00a0“Ich spiele Leben!” (I play life). So this is what the blog mashable reports:<\/p>\n

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\nImage courtesy of Wikimedia Commons,\u00a0Frank Fox<\/a><\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

I guess this will \u201cYou have video games, so why aren\u2019t we making games on a more biological platform, as well?\u201d Riedel-Kruse wonders.<\/p>\n

He says he coined the term \u201cbiotic video games,\u201d along with his results: a soccer-themed game called\u00a0Ciliaball<\/em>. He digitally laid the image of a virtual soccer field and ball atop a magnified, paramecia-filled pool. To earn points, players must guide their paramecia to \u201ckick\u201d the ball into the virtual goals. Users influence the organisms by pushing buttons on a handheld controller, which administers a light charge to one end of the tiny pool. The critters then swim in the opposite direction, in a phenomena called \u201cgalvanotaxis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks Daphne Dragona for forwarding this interesting topic. I remember a line from a Hansi Lang pop song that Ludic Society member Margarete Jahrmann used to quote:\u00a0“Ich spiele Leben!” (I play life). So this is what the blog mashable reports: Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}