{"id":89,"date":"2008-06-02T16:26:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T16:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-06-27T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T11:17:10","slug":"passively-multiplayer-online-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/passively-multiplayer-online-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Passively multiplayer online gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pmog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Passively Multiplayer Online Game<\/a> has been sitting in my &#8216;to investigate&#8217; list untouched for a couple of weeks as I was worried that when I started playing I wouldn&#8217;t get any work done at all. Fortunately, while this game is undoubtably cool, I&#8217;m not totally addicted (yet).<\/p>\n<p>PMOG is essentially a FireFox extension that allows you to play while you surf the web, collecting Datapoints and undertaking missions. So far the missions I have completed involved navigating through a series of web sites and reading the message attached to each one; I love the way that the game allows you to interact with existing sites within the browser in new ways that only other players can see &#8211; adding treasure, laying mines, and providing new layers of links.<\/p>\n<p>I can see an immediate application for this sort of game for creating guided tours of web sites, highlighting resources for students and sharing information online. However, I think I&#8217;m not totally immersed yet because so far it has been limited to navigating the web &#8211; but then I have only been playing for a day and am still officially a &#8216;newbie&#8217;. I look forward to undertaking new missions and hopefully uncovering a whole new layer of interactivity.<\/p>\n<p>And I call this work&#8230;  :o)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The link to the Passively Multiplayer Online Game has been sitting in my &#8216;to investigate&#8217; list untouched for a couple of weeks as I was worried that when I started playing I wouldn&#8217;t get any work done at all. Fortunately,&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/passively-multiplayer-online-gaming\/\">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":[5,22,52],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-cool-stuff","tag-mmorpgs","tag-pmog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-1r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}