{"id":873,"date":"2022-03-06T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2022-10-21T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T16:06:30","slug":"episode-42-how-to-be-a-good-video-game-god-with-richard-a-bartle%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Episode 42 &#8211; How to be a good Video Game God (with Richard A. Bartle)\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Release Date: May 10, 2022]\u00a0\u00a0Someday people may be gods \u2013 all powerful entities able to control the physics of virtual worlds and the functionalities of NPCs.\u00a0 We might even give NPCs free will, a soul, or immortality \u2013 who knows what else?\u00a0 In this episode we have fun thinking about some of the moral choices that would come with being a video game god.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/1IuPBgh4EqzIdaKhHeBfEm?utm_source=generator&#038;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: May 10, 2022]\u00a0\u00a0Someday people may be gods \u2013 all powerful entities able to control the physics of virtual worlds and the functionalities of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874,"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":[151,152,106,19],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-play-like-a-god","tag-video-game-god","tag-video-games","tag-video-games-ethics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/42-3-w-logo-1.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}