{"id":199,"date":"2004-05-01T19:36:23","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T17:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=199"},"modified":"2004-05-01T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2004-05-01T17:36:23","slug":"pac-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2004\/05\/01\/pac-manhattan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/pacmanhattan.com\/\">Pac-Manhattan<\/a> website:<\/p>\n<p>Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980&#8217;s video game sensation Pac-Man. This analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU&#8217;s Interactive Telecommunications graduate program, in order to explore what happens when games are removed from their &#8220;little world&#8221; of tabletops, televisions and computers and placed in the larger &#8220;real world&#8221; of street corners, and cities.<\/p>\n<p>A player dressed as Pac-man will run around the Washington square park area of Manhattan while attempting to collect all of the virtual &#8220;dots&#8221; that run the length of the streets. Four players dressed as the ghosts Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde will attempt to catch Pac-man before all of the dots are collected. Using Global Positioning, WIFI internet connections, cell phones and custom software designed by the Pac-Manhattan team, Pac-man and the ghosts will be tracked from a central location and their progress will be broadcast over the internet for viewers from around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Pac-Manhattan website: Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980&#8217;s video game sensation Pac-Man. This analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU&#8217;s Interactive Telecommunications graduate program, in order to explore what happens when games are removed from their &#8220;little world&#8221; of tabletops, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2004\/05\/01\/pac-manhattan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pac-Manhattan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}