{"id":561,"date":"2008-10-03T21:46:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T21:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2008-10-07T15:41:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T15:41:36","slug":"this-week-in-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you have to look real hard for anything interesting on the internet, and sometimes the internet just decides to throw things in your lap. Here&#8217;s a couple of links that you all might want to check out if you have a few free moments over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As it seems only few people know, the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2008wmsg.org\/en\/\">World Mind Sports Games<\/a> opened today in China. Not only does it have an inelegant name, but also one of the worst logos I have ever seen, <em>for anything<\/em>. Nonetheless, it&#8217;s pretty cool that there&#8217;s a big international tournament that centers around such classic games. One last problem though, where&#8217;s Backgammon?<\/p>\n<p>Iroquois Pliskin, who actually dropped by the site this week, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/versusclucluland.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/i-am-just-good-enough-for-pixeljunk.html\">review of <em>PixelJunk Monsters<\/em> <\/a>up on Versus CluCluLand. This is a great game that does some really interesting things with the normal Tower Defense formula. As Iroquois rightly points out it&#8217;s the addition of an avatar that really makes the game. It does for Tower Defense what <em>Harvest Moon<\/em> did for farm sims.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as a little bonus, there&#8217;s a great post on the electoral projection site FiveThirtyEight.com on one of John McCain&#8217;s tells, known now as the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2008\/09\/tongue-jut.html\">tongue jut<\/a>&#8216;. Some pretty good off-the-cuff analysis from the author Sean Quinn, who is apparently a Poker player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you have to look real hard for anything interesting on the internet, and sometimes the internet just decides to throw things in your lap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}