{"id":1048,"date":"2006-08-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2006-08-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T12:00:00","slug":"game-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/06\/game-innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend sent me a link to a wiki of computer game innovations<\/a> a few weeks ago. It’s a nice idea from the Entertainment Technology Centre<\/a> at Carnegie Mellon (I’d no idea such a thing existed!).<\/p>\n

I’d definitely question the accuracy of some of the information on there, but it looks like it’s pretty easy to post corrections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend sent me a link to a wiki of computer game innovations a few weeks ago. It’s a nice idea from the Entertainment Technology Centre at Carnegie Mellon (I’d no idea such a thing existed!). I’d definitely question the accuracy of some of the information on there, but it looks like it’s pretty easy… Continue reading Game Innovations<\/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-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1362,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/ukoug-blogger-meet-up-and-day-two\/","url_meta":{"origin":1048,"position":0},"title":"UKOUG Blogger Meet-up and Day Two","date":"December 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I managed to work on my presentation a bit yesterday afternoon. 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