{"id":64720,"date":"2021-09-07T08:53:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/?p=64720"},"modified":"2021-09-07T08:53:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:53:36","slug":"lo-my-inspiration-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/2021\/09\/07\/lo-my-inspiration-3\/","title":{"rendered":"LO: my inspiration <3"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>My favourite video game is League of Legends, which I would consider to be a form of interactive and computational art. While it is mostly developer-driven,<br>one of the main reasons I came to love the game so much was Riot Games&rsquo; founding philosophy: to let the game be player-influenced and free to play. To my knowledge, Riot Games made the game entirely on their own, and the idea came from two bright minds fresh from developing a popular Warframe 3 mod, DOTA. It took four years to develop, and it was finally released in 2009. Having kept their loyal fanbase from DOTA excited for a new game, League of Legends was an instant success. Riot went from a small indie game company to a well-known studio, boasting a sizeable team of just under 3,000 employees.<br>League wasn&rsquo;t the first game of its kind in any way. However, its incredible staying power has transformed the realm of possibilities for video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leagueoflegends.com\/en-us\/\">https:\/\/www.leagueoflegends.com\/en-us\/<\/a><br>Riot Games<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"PlayVS\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.prismic.io\/play-vs\/6c423286e877921fb6659122b16e1845df833e1f_league-of-legends-hero-splash.jpg?auto=compress,format\" alt=\"League of Legends - Scholastic Esports | PlayVS\"><\/a><figcaption><em>League of Legends<\/em> title screen via <a href=\"https:\/\/images.prismic.io\/play-vs\/6c423286e877921fb6659122b16e1845df833e1f_league-of-legends-hero-splash.jpg?auto=compress,format\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/images.prismic.io\/play-vs\/6c423286e877921fb6659122b16e1845df833e1f_league-of-legends-hero-splash.jpg?auto=compress,format<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><p><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite video game is League of Legends, which I would consider to be a form of interactive and computational art. While it is mostly developer-driven,one of the main reasons I came to love the game so much was Riot Games&rsquo; founding philosophy: to let the game be player-influenced and free to play. To my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/2021\/09\/07\/lo-my-inspiration-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LO: my inspiration <3\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64726,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64720\/revisions\/64726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}