{"id":172,"date":"2011-10-19T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/games\/?p=172"},"modified":"2013-09-26T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:49:48","slug":"transmedia-pbs-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2011\/10\/19\/transmedia-pbs-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmedia PBS project on Arab Culture and Islamic history launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wham-bam-islam\/images\/film.jpg\" alt=\"THE 99\" style=\"float:right;margin: 0 0 1em 1em\" \/>PBS has launched a new film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wham-bam-islam\/film.html\">Wham-Bam-Islam<\/a> (a bit unfortunately named, IMHO) to teach viewers about the values of moderate Islam. The film supports an existing comic book series, &#8220;THE 99,&#8221; and &#8212; more interesting to me &#8212; in turn is supported by a game, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/wham-bam-islam\/game.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hunt for the Noor Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt for the Noor Stone seems to be a fairly straightforward adventure-style game, typical of most transmedia projects, which is well-executed but not really replayable. Then again, the film itself is also a one-shot deal, so the game needn&#8217;t have a long tail of replayability.<\/p>\n<p>The game was developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playwala.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Playwala<\/a>, which roughly means &#8220;play business&#8221; in Hindi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS has launched a new film, Wham-Bam-Islam (a bit unfortunately named, IMHO) to teach viewers about the values of moderate Islam. The film supports an existing comic book series, &#8220;THE 99,&#8221; and &#8212; more interesting to me &#8212; in turn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2011\/10\/19\/transmedia-pbs-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113393],"tags":[13248],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archival","tag-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}