{"id":145,"date":"2010-03-24T20:48:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/?p=145"},"modified":"2017-10-20T20:48:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T20:48:43","slug":"accessibility-not-reality-is-the-big-force-driving-games-and-virtual-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"# Accessibility, Not Reality, Is the Big Force Driving Games and Virtual Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/SafariSchnappschuss001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-415\" title=\"SafariSchnappschuss001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/SafariSchnappschuss001-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>So what&#8217;s the unifying theme in all these products, those I mention and those Schell cites? Not reality, in my view, but\u00a0<em>accessibility<\/em>: ease of acquisition or ease of use.<\/p>\n<p>Interactive entertainment that can be enjoyed immediately and intuitively, with as low a barrier to entry as possible. \u00a0Start swinging the Wii remote, and get instant feedback; select an iPhone app you want to play, and start playing it in several minutes. Low cost, short installation\/start-up times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/nwn\/2010\/03\/jesse-schell-get-real.html\" target=\"_blank\">(Read more &#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what&#8217;s the unifying theme in all these products, those I mention and those Schell cites? Not reality, in my view, but\u00a0accessibility: ease of acquisition or ease of use. Interactive entertainment that can be enjoyed immediately and intuitively, with as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/?p=145\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamelab.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}