{"id":2454,"date":"2009-10-02T22:43:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T22:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/a-card-game-designed-for-heavy-duty-mathematics\/"},"modified":"2009-10-02T22:43:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T22:43:26","slug":"a-card-game-designed-for-heavy-duty-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/a-card-game-designed-for-heavy-duty-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Card Game Designed For Heavy Duty Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now <em>this<\/em> looks fun!<\/p>\n<p>Geekstack (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekstack.com\">www.geekstack.com<\/a>) is a card came, currently in the late stages of design, from Peter Chrisensen and Michael Pavelich. The hook? It\u2019s not going to be just a great collectible card game, but it\u2019s going to have educational cards by using real life people as the \u2018heroes\u2019, and it\u2019s going to have a strong online component as well both for playing and trading.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that but it\u2019s using the Silicon Valley network in the way that every other town and country gets jealous of\u2026 a quick call into one of the many \u201clook at this start-up\u201d shows, some advice from known names, and then went on to lobby-con <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch50.com\/\">TechCrunch50<\/a> and gain a bucket load of contacts and input into the system.<\/p>\n<p>Given my love of card games, and online stuff, I\u2019ll be watching this with keen interest and will more than likely order one of the beta decks to check it out (and support a great idea).<\/p>\n<p>Plus I really really hope they have an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Wiles\">Andrew Wiles<\/a> card!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image63.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"John Von Neumann\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"560\" alt=\"John Von Neumann\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this looks fun! Geekstack (www.geekstack.com) is a card came, currently in the late stages of design, from Peter Chrisensen and Michael Pavelich. The hook? It\u2019s not going to be just a great collectible card game, but it\u2019s going to have educational cards by using real life people as the \u2018heroes\u2019, and it\u2019s going to have a strong online component as well both for playing and trading. Not only that but it\u2019s using the Silicon Valley network in the way that every other town and country gets jealous of\u2026 a quick call into one of the many \u201clook at this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,112],"tags":[1387,1388,1386,1389],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-web-20-news","tag-andrew-wiles","tag-fermats-last-hteorem","tag-geekstack","tag-john-von-neumann","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-DA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}