{"id":1628,"date":"2025-10-03T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:08:19","slug":"what-is-a-game-what-is-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/2025\/10\/03\/what-is-a-game-what-is-play\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Game? What is Play?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is a Game? What is Play? &#8211; Emma Raey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cricket:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Batter and bowler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hit the wicket or complete a run to score<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wicket keeper catches the ball when it doesn&#8217;t get it, fielders catch the ball when it does get hit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 teams compete<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Competitive<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mums and Dads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Roleplaying house activities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Imaginary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Communication, going with the flow, inventive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simulation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chess:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Put the King into checkmate to win<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Different pieces move in different patterns<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stategy and forward thinking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shoot demon, collect ammo, reach destination<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simulation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hand eye coordination and reaction time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is a good game?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Establish constraints\/rules<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make the challenge interesting and engaging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Structured play activity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Players voluntarily work within these rules to overcome the challenges<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It has a quantifiable end state which creates a goal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Game? What is Play? &#8211; Emma Raey Cricket: Mums and Dads: Chess: Doom: What is a good game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-y1s1-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}