{"id":510,"date":"2005-12-19T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T15:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=510"},"modified":"2005-12-21T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T14:14:11","slug":"one-a-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"One &#8220;A&#8221; List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aleks, over on the Guardian Unlimited&#8217;s <em>Gamesblog<\/em>, has posted a &#8220;Best of&#8221; for the year (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/games\/archives\/2005\/12\/16\/games_of_the_year_2005.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) and somewhat (though not entirely) surprisingly, has included &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\" target=\"blank\"><em>Second Life<\/em><\/a>&#8220;. It&#8217;s a short list &#8211; only three titles long &#8211; which also includes &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameshout.com\/ds\/sprung\/\" target=\"blank\"><em>Sprung<\/em><\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionhead.com\/themovies\/\" target=\"blank\"><em>The Movies<\/em><\/a>&#8221; (used to create &#8220;<em>The French Democracy<\/em>&#8221; about which <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?p=445\" target=\"blank\">I&#8217;ve written<\/a>). Aleks had this to say about Second Life: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s been out since 2003, but this is the year they went from 18,000 subscribers to 90,000 subscribers, which has changed things immensely. It&#8217;s not really a game; it&#8217;s whatever you make it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect this endorsement will help grow the population. Good thing there&#8217;s no mention the basic account is free, or developer Linden Lab would have their hands full keeping up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleks, over on the Guardian Unlimited&#8217;s Gamesblog, has posted a &#8220;Best of&#8221; for the year (Link) and somewhat (though not entirely) surprisingly, has included &#8220;Second Life&#8220;. It&#8217;s a short list &#8211; only three titles long &#8211; which also includes &#8220;Sprung&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}