{"id":16445,"date":"2017-08-22T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=16445"},"modified":"2017-08-22T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:21:12","slug":"opinion-blog-from-the-us-engaging-with-the-historical-past-through-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16445","title":{"rendered":"Opinion blog from the US: Engaging with the Historical Past through Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Preservation_Leadership_Forum_website_Tenement_Museum__Title_page_22082017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16446\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Preservation_Leadership_Forum_website_Tenement_Museum__Title_page_22082017.png\" alt=\"Preservation Leadership Forum website Tenement Museum Title page 220817\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A blog on the Preservation Leadership site argues that in video games, place is one of the most important components to player engagement.<\/h3>\n<h5><em>image from Blog\/ Tenement Museum NY<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Khanh Vo and Mariaelena DiBenigno, write for The Preservation Leadership blog:<\/p>\n<p>In video games, place is arguably one of the most important components to player engagement.\u00a0 From the smoke-filled streets of the \u2018Silent Hill\u2019 series to the bloody battlegrounds of the \u2018Call of Duty\u2019 franchise, video game makers carefully plan when and where to set the scene. Specifically, historically relevant locations help advance the games\u2019 narratives and encourage a powerful, if unexpected, interactivity with the past. Though perhaps not the initial intent of creators or consumers, preservation happens all the time within the virtual realities of video games. This accessible re-creation occurs in several ways\u2014or on several levels\u2014across interactive gaming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.savingplaces.org\/blogs\/forum-online\/2017\/07\/14\/engaging-with-the-historical-past-through-gaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog on the Preservation Leadership site argues that in video games, place is one of the most important components to player engagement. image from Blog\/ Tenement Museum NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16447,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions\/16447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}