{"id":32974,"date":"2021-06-30T16:56:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32974"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:56:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:56:42","slug":"oregon-trail-for-ios-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/30\/oregon-trail-for-ios-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Trail for iOS Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90645359\/the-oregon-trail-is-back-and-a-little-less-racist\">Mark Wilson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90645359\/the-oregon-trail-is-back-and-a-little-less-racist\"><p>A new version of <em>The Oregon Trail<\/em>&mdash;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/the-oregon-trail\/id1502228492\">out now for iOS devices that subscribe to Apple Arcade<\/a>&mdash;begins to wrestle with this tension. Developed by an Australian team at Gameloft, a prominent mobile game developer, the new version mostly plays like the old <em>Oregon Trail<\/em> you know. You get a wagon, buy supplies, and gather a team to join you on the journey. Along the trail, you ford rivers, break legs, and shoot way too many pounds of buffalo to possibly carry back.<\/p><p>What&rsquo;s different is that Native American history scholars gave input. That input led to more human, and historically accurate, representations of Indigenous people, culminating in the first playable Native American characters in any <em>Oregon Trail<\/em> game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/removing-unmaintained-apps-from-the-app-store\/\">Removing Unmaintained Apps from the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Wilson: A new version of The Oregon Trail&mdash;out now for iOS devices that subscribe to Apple Arcade&mdash;begins to wrestle with this tension. Developed by an Australian team at Gameloft, a prominent mobile game developer, the new version mostly plays like the old Oregon Trail you know. You get a wagon, buy supplies, and gather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-06-30T20:56:46Z","apple_news_api_id":"58fe68f5-dd1b-4d2a-a509-6d09a4ff26f2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-30T20:56:46Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWP5o9d0bTSqlCW0JpP8m8g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1787,418,31,1837,26,1184],"class_list":["post-32974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-arcade","tag-game","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-the-oregon-trail"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32975,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32974\/revisions\/32975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}