{"id":1339,"date":"2008-03-26T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2008\/03\/26\/one-last-post-about-childs-play\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T17:13:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T23:13:58","slug":"one-last-post-about-childs-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"One Last Post About <i>Child&#8217;s Play<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the I-forgot-to-post-about-this department, back at the first of the month my <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/games\/cplay\/\">text adventure <i>Child&#8217;s Play<\/i><\/a> took home the <a href=\"http:\/\/xyzzynews.com\/2007winners.html\">XYZZY Award for best NPCs<\/a>. Clearly the route to creating award-winning non-player characters for a work of interactive fiction is to not have them talk.<\/p>\n<p>And in the last week there have been two reviews of the game. Grunion Guy wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=6a23xff9er4s83pl&#038;review=3378\">short but glowing review<\/a> at the IFDB. Over at IF-Review, Emily Short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministryofpeace.com\/if-review\/reviews\/20080328.html\">enjoyed the game<\/a>, and had kind words both for Zoe and for the mostly non-interactive parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the I-forgot-to-post-about-this department, back at the first of the month my text adventure Child&#8217;s Play took home the XYZZY Award for best NPCs. Clearly the route to creating award-winning non-player characters for a work of interactive fiction is to not have them talk. And in the last week there have been two reviews of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Last Post About <i>Child&#8217;s Play<\/i><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}