{"id":100,"date":"2009-09-09T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/languages\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-02-12T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:06:21","slug":"kafka-and-spore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/09\/09\/kafka-and-spore\/","title":{"rendered":"Kafka and Spore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still quite rare to find video games based on literature, which makes another game based on a Kafka story so remarkable.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve previously shown <a href=\"http:\/\/infocult.typepad.com\/infocult\/2006\/01\/gregor_samsa_aw.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kafkamesto<\/a> to our German department.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very well done point and click game that incorporates elements from several of Kafka&#8217;s most famous stories.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I read about an expansion pack for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\/ftl\">Spore<\/a> based on <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=2xAum1r8y5MC&amp;dq=the+metamorphosis+by+franz+kafka&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=qRL2v_yFLd&amp;sig=ZzkBI7uGcdhmjDSXi0DtScbPu5w&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=2sSnSv_HE5XWNeOz2bEP&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Metamorphosis<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/blog\/a_gigantic_vermin.shtml\">Metamorphosis scenario<\/a> is a download for an expansion pack of Spore.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the game itself doesn&#8217;t involve much language usage, but perhaps the scenario will be different.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s to hoping we can find a language rich German version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still quite rare to find video games based on literature, which makes another game based on a Kafka story so remarkable.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve previously shown Kafkamesto to our German department.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very well done point and click game that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/09\/09\/kafka-and-spore\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[64,70],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-games","tag-german"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}