{"id":1115,"date":"2011-04-02T17:40:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T16:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2011-04-02T17:40:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T16:40:37","slug":"show-me-the-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/04\/02\/show-me-the-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Me The History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShowMeTheGames has an interview with Chris from muzzy lane software here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.showmethegames.com\/makinghistory_interview.php\">http:\/\/www.showmethegames.com\/makinghistory_interview.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They make the strategy game &#8216;Making History&#8217;, which is used, a bit like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/democracy2\">Democracy 2<\/a> is, to teach kids history in schools.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really sure how to promote ShowMeTheGames. Hopefully, the RSS feed works now, but getting news sites to link to it is naturally problematic, because some will see it as a competitor to them. Hopefully the site can grow organically over time anyway. Feel free to quote the site or link to it when appropriate. I really want it to be the #1 site for showcasing indie PC games that you can buy direct from the developers. My heart sinks every time I see a cool new indie game and realise that the developers have an exclusive deal that you can only buy it from a third party. That just seems so lazy, and short-term. I&#8217;m sure everyone thinks they can always rely on their third party partners, and everything will be fine, but then, who predicted last week that impulse would get sold?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShowMeTheGames has an interview with Chris from muzzy lane software here: http:\/\/www.showmethegames.com\/makinghistory_interview.php They make the strategy game &#8216;Making History&#8217;, which is used, a bit like Democracy 2 is, to teach kids history in schools. I&#8217;m not really sure how to promote ShowMeTheGames. Hopefully, the RSS feed works now, but getting news sites to link to<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Show Me The History<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/04\/02\/show-me-the-history\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}