{"id":4278,"date":"2021-12-28T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T18:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2021-12-28T22:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T22:41:13","slug":"we-need-more-games-that-make-us-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/daily-thoughts\/we-need-more-games-that-make-us-think\/","title":{"rendered":"We need more games that make us think"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  We need more games that make us think instead of those that dumb us down. Video games are not bad (in moderation). Boardgames are better. Puzzle games are great.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I used to love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/miscellaneou\/hacker-games\/help-create-list-hacker-challenge-games\/\">hacker challenge games<\/a>, and recently I stumbled upon one on iOS called <a href=\"https:\/\/solve63.com\/\">63<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a testament that I didn&#8217;t lose my mojo completely \ud83d\ude0f, I finished on the Leader board.<\/p>\n<p>Great game, check it out, and please recommend any other that you may know that&#8217;s similar.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and BTW, because why not, you can get one of the 62 images (I kept one for myself) above as an NFT on <a href=\"https:\/\/opensea.io\/assets\/matic\/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a89cf0599974963\/104453672621605352725909998208286431899952527322523624220236451257668721442879\">OpenSea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f In this new &#8220;Daily Thoughts&#8221; series, I&#8217;m just scratching my own itch. For too long now I&#8217;ve been reading and consuming. Not that there&#8217;s something inherently wrong with that, but if one doesn&#8217;t offset that with his own producing, one often falls into the trap of staying a consumer. If you think you know something, or want to learn something about yourself, try to explain it &#8216;on paper&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think best &#8216;on paper&#8217;, and it&#8217;s been a while since a wrote a post. So, I&#8217;ll start small (and build up a habit of daily writing again) by sharing a thought daily. I&#8217;ll use this as a retrospective a year from now.<\/p>\n<p>Dear readers, feel free to chime in with your thoughts on my thoughts (so Meta; which is popular in its own right these days).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need more games that make us think instead of those that dumb us down. Video games are not bad (in moderation). Boardgames are better. Puzzle games are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}