{"id":30,"date":"2007-10-31T19:12:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T18:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-06-27T10:41:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T10:41:38","slug":"there-go-my-evenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/there-go-my-evenings\/","title":{"rendered":"There go my evenings&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend of mine has just introduced me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildwars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guild Wars<\/a>. It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mmorpg\" target=\"_blank\">MMORPG<\/a> in the style of World of Warcraft but without the monthly subscription and with (I&#8217;m told) more of a focus on puzzle-solving rather than just killin&#8217; stuff (although there is still plenty of hack &#8216;n&#8217; slash).<\/p>\n<p>Well so far, I&#8217;m hooked. I used up the free 10 hour demo in three days and am now having to ration my time online so that I don&#8217;t turn into some sort of ubernerdgamergeek. I&#8217;ve read a couple or really good papers recently about the potential for using MMORPGs to teach collaborative skills (I&#8217;ll post a link when I have a sec) and I can certainly see the potential. What I particularly like about Guild Wars is that you can play with other people online or you can be totally anti-social and play on your own with virtual characters &#8211; could be useful in a teaching situation for asynchronous play?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if there are any virtual gaming environments that are totally puzzle based? Would anyone use them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend of mine has just introduced me to Guild Wars. It&#8217;s a MMORPG in the style of World of Warcraft but without the monthly subscription and with (I&#8217;m told) more of a focus on puzzle-solving rather than just&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/there-go-my-evenings\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-mmorpgs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}