{"id":813,"date":"2010-04-19T23:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T06:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2010-04-19T23:15:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T06:15:18","slug":"the-rick-wakeman-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2010\/04\/the-rick-wakeman-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rick Wakeman clause?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phrase seen in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/194504\/video_games_as_art_who_cares.html\">article<\/a> about whether video games are art, and Roger Ebert&#8217;s opinions thereon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Video games by their nature require player choices, which is the  opposite of the strategy of serious film and literature&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, Mr. Ebert doesn&#8217;t seem to be up on the concept of hypertext, which has manifold connections with cinema. See for instance the scholarly paper <a href=\"http:\/\/hypertext.rmit.edu.au\/essays\/downloads\/cinemaParadigms.pdf\">Cinematic Paradigms for Hypertext<\/a>. In fact, making a hypertext or branching narrative requires even greater amounts of authorial skill.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m still curious, what is the Rick Wakeman clause? From where did that term originate? -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phrase seen in this article about whether video games are art, and Roger Ebert&#8217;s opinions thereon. &#8220;Video games by their nature require player choices, which is the opposite of the strategy of serious film and literature&#8230;&#8221; Hmm, Mr. Ebert doesn&#8217;t seem to be up on the concept of hypertext, which has manifold connections with cinema&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,43,1],"tags":[959,957,955,892,960,961,962,958,956],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everythingismiscellaneous","category-review","category-stuff","tag-art","tag-cinema","tag-ebert","tag-hypertext","tag-opinion","tag-paradigm","tag-rick","tag-videogames","tag-wakeman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-d7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}