{"id":13912,"date":"2021-01-21T12:40:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/?p=13912"},"modified":"2021-01-21T12:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:40:05","slug":"a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-playing-with-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-playing-with-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"A Game Designer\u2019s Analysis Of QAnon &#8211; Playing with reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.curiouserinstitute.com\/content\/about-director\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Reed Berkowitz<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>QAnon has often been compared to ARGs and LARPs and rightly so. It uses many of the same gaming mechanisms and rewards. It has a game-like feel to it that is evident to anyone who has ever played an ARG, online role-play (RP) or LARP before. The similarities are so striking that it has often been referred to <em>as <\/em>a LARP or ARG. However this beast is very very different from a game.<\/p><p>It is the <em>differences <\/em>that shed the light on how QAnon works and many of them are hard to see if you\u2019re not involved in game development. QAnon is like the reflection of a game in a mirror, it looks just like one, but it is inverted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/curiouserinstitute\/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5\">https:\/\/medium.com\/curiouserinstitute\/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Reed Berkowitz QAnon has often been compared to ARGs and LARPs and rightly so. It uses many of the same gaming mechanisms and rewards. It has a game-like feel to it that is evident to anyone who has ever played an ARG, online role-play (RP) or LARP before. The similarities are so striking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[358],"tags":[606,480],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13913,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions\/13913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}