{"id":239,"date":"2008-05-29T14:56:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decisionproblem.com\/seminar\/?p=239"},"modified":"2008-09-04T05:48:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T05:48:49","slug":"short-list-for-a-long-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Short List for a Long Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Costikyan has compiled a list of who he believes to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/playthisthing.com\/eminent-game-designers\">most influential game designers<\/a> (across all mediums) over on Play This Thing.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like he did it off the top of his head, and he admits that it&#8217;s North America-centric, but it&#8217;s already being extended in the comments. There&#8217;s one name that should be familiar to all of us, and a couple of omissions that I can think of. For instance, why have Hideki Kamiya but not Shinji Mikami? Where are all the athletic designers, like Dr. James Naismith, who created Basketball?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it&#8217;s deficiencies, it&#8217;s a fun exercise and everyone should jump in with their own contributions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Costikyan has compiled a list of who he believes to be the most influential game designers (across all mediums) over on Play This Thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}