{"id":306,"date":"2021-03-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2021-05-05T06:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:01:30","slug":"episode-3-just-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Episode 3 &#8211; When Game Met Reality And The Result Was A Shitstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>[Release Date: Apr. 6, 2021] <\/strong>In 2005 Atomic Games decided to do what no other game company to date had done: to produce a major-release game about a real battle in an ongoing war. \u00a0They spent 4 years making it, but they\u2019re announcement about soon to be released game led to angry public outcry.\u00a0 Their distributor backed up.\u00a0 The game and the company that made it were done.\u00a0 That game, \u201c6 Days in Fallujah\u201d, serves as an excellent reminder about the moral challenges of making games that touch on important issues about the real world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/2wxbnWcdCd3tRyXzTsaA0o\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: Apr. 6, 2021] In 2005 Atomic Games decided to do what no other game company to date had done: to produce a major-release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,52,21,23,53,22],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-6-days-in-fallujah","tag-atomic-gamers","tag-fallujah","tag-highwire-games","tag-serious-games","tag-war-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/maxresdefault-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}