{"id":227,"date":"2003-12-05T07:13:55","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=227"},"modified":"2003-12-05T07:13:55","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T13:13:55","slug":"just-in-time-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/12\/05\/just-in-time-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in time for Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get a degree in game design.<\/p>\n<p>Well, a minor, anyway&#8230;.  According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/digiwood\/0,1412,61162,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2\">this story on Wired News<\/a>, USC is now offering a minor in game design.  They picture it as an &#8220;add-on&#8221; to a more serious degree, like, say art.  (Actually, they interviewed an engineering student who was looking at taking the minor next year, too.)  Anyway, I guess it just goes to show how enormous the gaming industry has become!  So, think of all those video games you buy college-age people at Christmas not as &#8220;entertainment&#8221; so much as &#8220;research&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a degree in game design. Well, a minor, anyway&#8230;. According to this story on Wired News, USC is now offering a minor in game design. They picture it as an &#8220;add-on&#8221; to a more serious degree, like, say art. (Actually, they interviewed an engineering student who was looking at taking the minor next year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,27,14],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crass-commerce","category-fun","category-news-and-current-events","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}