{"158751":{"#nid":"158751","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bogost on Successful Games","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen a game like Minecraft makes a big splash in the market, \u0022everyone goes, \u0027What made Minecraft so successful? We need to copy that and make another Minecraft,\u0027 but maybe what made it so successful is the fact it evolved rather than being engineered,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/bogost\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, on how companies tend to exactly duplicate successful games without forethought on why, specifically, they resonated with gamers.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.zam.com\/story.html?story=30727\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EZAM\u003C\/a\u003E, October 2, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2012-10-03 09:38:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:00","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Apple Inc.","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.zam.com\/story.html?story=30727","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2450","name":"computer games"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}