{"id":445,"date":"2019-04-01T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2019-09-10T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:49:34","slug":"get-the-book-how-to-play-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Get the book <em>How to Play Video Games<\/em>!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet another publication has forgone taste and judgment to include my work: the wonderful anthology <em>How to Play Video Games<\/em> (NYU Press, 2019), edited by the amazing colleagues Matthew Thomas Payne and Nina B. Huntemann. In this book I write about the invention of Nintendo&#8217;s D-pad button scheme (the now iconic &#8220;+&#8221; sign), which not only graced almost every handheld game device Nintendo ever made, but also appeared on most console game controllers&#8211;thereby unifying <em>how<\/em> we play video games across devices (and decades, as the D-pad continues to take up controller real estate in various iterations to this day). Go get the book&#8230; it&#8217;s good stuff for scholars, students, and gamers alike!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Howtoplayvideogames.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Howtoplayvideogames.jpg 596w, https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Howtoplayvideogames-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another publication has forgone taste and judgment to include my work: the wonderful anthology How to Play Video Games (NYU Press, 2019), edited by the amazing colleagues Matthew Thomas Payne and Nina B. Huntemann. In this book I write &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/?p=445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}