{"id":6787,"date":"2013-01-08T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T22:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2013-01-08T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T22:33:07","slug":"endgame-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/endgame-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Endgame: Syria&rdquo; Rejected From the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2013\/01\/endgame-syria-ios\/\">Liat Clark<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2013\/01\/endgame-syria-ios\/\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s App Store has rejected a game that allows users to explore the different factions, consequences and outcomes of Syria&rsquo;s ongoing civil war, because it deals with a &ldquo;real entity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>U.K. game developer <a href=\"http:\/\/aurochdigital.com\/\">Auroch Digital<\/a> launched <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/gamethenews.net\/index.php\/endgame-syria\/\">Endgame: Syria<\/a><\/cite> as part of its <a href=\"http:\/\/gamethenews.net\/\">Game The News<\/a> project, which aims to get the public interacting with and reconsidering the concept of gaming, with politically and socially relevant topics infiltrating a medium usually reserved purely for fiction. The latter, says Auroch Digital&rsquo;s creative director Tomas Rawlings, is a trend that we should not be afraid to challenge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems to be in line with the current App Store Review Guidelines, although I think these types of apps should be allowed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liat Clark: Apple&rsquo;s App Store has rejected a game that allows users to explore the different factions, consequences and outcomes of Syria&rsquo;s ongoing civil war, because it deals with a &ldquo;real entity.&rdquo; U.K. game developer Auroch Digital launched Endgame: Syria as part of its Game The News project, which aims to get the public interacting [&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":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","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":[91,130,31,26],"class_list":["post-6787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-ios","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787","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=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6788,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions\/6788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}