{"id":673,"date":"2007-06-01T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/?p=673"},"modified":"2007-06-01T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T08:11:00","slug":"the-power-of-the-will-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"The power of the will to live."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">    &#8220;The essence of the videogame is survival of the fittest. When playing a game, it&#8217;s the versus just you and your survival instinct and that&#8217;s the most powerful instinct a human being has. The will to live overrides everything.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">    So, in my opinion, the essence of a great videogame is to exploit that instinct, to really get the player&#8217;s adrenaline going.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Eugene Jarvis<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">October 1996<\/span><br \/>Edge 37<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The essence of the videogame is survival of the fittest. When playing a game, it&#8217;s the versus just you and your survival instinct and that&#8217;s the most powerful instinct a human being has. The will to live overrides everything. So, in my opinion, the essence of a great videogame is to exploit that instinct, to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/?p=673\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article-int', 'http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/?p=673', 'Continue reading The power of the will to live.']);\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The power of the will to live.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xanday.unifstudios.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}