{"id":3664,"date":"2009-12-04T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T00:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2014-11-15T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T03:32:37","slug":"friday-math-movie-toys-that-make-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-toys-that-make-worlds-3664","title":{"rendered":"Friday Math Movie - Toys that make worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's the guy that created SimCity and Spore.<\/p>\n<p>Will Wright's talk (from the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">TED<\/a> series) gives an outline of how different disciplines (including math, of course!) are involved in game creation. He also talks about the power of toys for learning.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e3NA-aKpgFk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-toys-that-make-worlds-3664\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/11\/TED-toys-worlds.jpg\" alt=\"spore\" title=\"spore\" width=\"128\" height=\"85\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a> The creator of SimCity and Spore gives an entertaining overview of the games he's created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[127,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}