{"id":675,"date":"2007-11-23T16:57:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T16:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/trigger-happy-free\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T22:37:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T22:37:38","slug":"trigger-happy-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/trigger-happy-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Trigger Happy Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/thcolour.jpg' alt='thcolour.jpg' align=\"left\" class=\"noborder\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/stevenpoole.net\/blog\/\">Steven Poole<\/a> was a columnist for Edge Magazine for a long time, and he&#8217;s has written some books on games.<\/p>\n<p>Steven has now decided (prompted by Amazon&#8217;s Kindle launch as he mentions) to <a href=\"http:\/\/stevenpoole.net\/blog\/trigger-happier\/\">offer for free<\/a> his game-related ebook Trigger Happy, which was released in 2000. <\/p>\n<p>As he says in his blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Trigger Happy is a book about the aesthetics of videogames \u00e2\u20ac\u201d what they share with cinema, the history of painting, or literature; and what makes them different, in terms of form, psychology and semiotics.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A good reading even if you don&#8217;t like games, free and released under a Creative Commons license. Trigger happy has just become my weekend book \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>[tags]games, Trigger Happy, Steven Poole, free ebook[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Poole was a columnist for Edge Magazine for a long time, and he&#8217;s has written some books on games. Steven has now decided (prompted by Amazon&#8217;s Kindle launch as he mentions) to offer for free his game-related ebook Trigger Happy, which was released in 2000. As he says in his blog: Trigger Happy is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}