{"id":2422,"date":"2014-10-01T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T19:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2014-10-01T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T19:38:38","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e55-the-rules-of-the-game-with-jaime-woo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2422","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E55: The Rules of the Game with Jaime Woo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2423\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jamiewoo.jpg\" alt=\"jamiewoo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jamiewoo.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jamiewoo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Above Toronto&#8217;s Glad Day Bookshop, Colin Marshall talks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaimewoo.com\">Jaime Woo<\/a>, writer, game designer, co-founder of the Toronto video game festival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamercamp.ca\">Gamercamp<\/a> (the next edition of which happens this month), and author of\u00a0<em>Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect<\/em>. They discuss taking the measure of a city by firing up Grindr and examining its men; things people have figured out how to use the app for other than hooking up and sending &#8220;a slew of dick pics&#8221;; how such apps have illustrated the decreased yet increase importance of living in particular places; the changing signifiers of queer culture, offline and on; how he views the must-touted &#8220;multiculturalism&#8221; of Toronto; what his 13-year-old self growing up in the suburbs would have thought about Grindr; the app&#8217;s stark limitations as advantages that counteract our impulse to too-narrowly define our desires; how to learn about Toronto by observing the couples in its advertisements; the ever-present &#8220;distance&#8221; in the city, which guards against trends that miss but also prevent the ones that make homeruns; Grindr as a video game, his history with gaming, and what let him to co-found Gamercamp; his mission to bring the novelty and &#8220;whimsy&#8221; back to gaming, included but not limited to his creation of a new physical game based on the idea of social distance&#8221;; how a set of rules forms a system, how that system makes an experience, and when we call that experience a game; and the strategies one can follow to better understand the &#8220;rules&#8221; of a system like Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E55_Jaime_Woo.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above Toronto&#8217;s Glad Day Bookshop, Colin Marshall talks to Jaime Woo, writer, game designer, co-founder of the Toronto video game festival Gamercamp (the next edition of which happens this month), and author of\u00a0Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect. They discuss taking the measure of a city by firing up Grindr and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture","category-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}