{"id":8408,"date":"2013-09-14T18:54:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T17:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2013-09-14T18:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T17:55:05","slug":"zynga-never-measured-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/zynga-never-measured-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Zynga never measured &#8216;fun&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica takes a long and detailed look at Zynga, although it boils down to this paragraph from former Zynga designer Jason Pyke:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You could always fight back, but ultimately what it came down to was: I could always argue that this would make the game fun, but I had a PM tell me\u2014many times\u2014that they &#8216;couldn&#8217;t get data on fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, fascinating weekend reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica takes a long and detailed look at Zynga, although it boils down to this paragraph from former Zynga designer Jason Pyke: You could always fight back, but ultimately what it came down to was: I could always argue that this would make the game fun, but I had a PM tell me\u2014many times\u2014that they &#8216;couldn&#8217;t get data on fun. Still, fascinating weekend reading.<\/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":[25,111],"tags":[4829,4828,88,2467],"class_list":["post-8408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-web-20","tag-fall","tag-rise","tag-success","tag-zynga","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2bC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408","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=8408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}