{"id":15656,"date":"2007-11-14T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2007\/11\/14\/shall-we-play-a-game\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:45","slug":"shall-we-play-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2007\/11\/14\/shall-we-play-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Shall we play a game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not &#8220;Thermonuclear War&#8221; (though this might cover that).<br \/>I&#8217;ve been asked to re-write Strategic Coach&#8217;s emergency procedures, but when I started working on the job I realised that&#8230; they don&#8217;t make sense. The logistics are fine on paper, but it&#8217;s easy to see how they just wouldn&#8217;t work in reality. But I can&#8217;t get my head around what would work instead. (And I have a personal rule that I won&#8217;t go back to my client with an objection unless I have an alternative to present.)<br \/>So what I&#8217;ve done is <strong>turned it into a board-game<\/strong>, and I&#8217;m inviting you, if you&#8217;re in the area, to come over to my place on Friday evening for some nibbles and to play the &#8220;Emergency!&#8221; game with me, to try to figure out how to get everyone out of the building while also achieving certain objectives.<br \/>Want to play? If you do, drop me an e-mail!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1045\/shall-we-play-a-game01.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not &#8220;Thermonuclear War&#8221; (though this might cover that).I&#8217;ve been asked to re-write Strategic Coach&#8217;s emergency procedures, but when I started working on the job I realised that&#8230; they don&#8217;t make sense. The logistics are fine on paper, but it&#8217;s easy to see how they just wouldn&#8217;t work in reality. But I can&#8217;t get my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}