{"id":2044,"date":"2016-02-15T05:27:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T05:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/?page_id=2044"},"modified":"2016-02-15T06:11:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T06:11:47","slug":"civilization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/topicstoanalyze\/rhetoricvideogames\/civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilization, an Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What Video Games Are<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lev Manovich on New Media<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;Numerical representation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/language-new-media\">The Language of New Media<\/a>, p. 20)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alexander Galloway Definition<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;[a] video game is a cultural object, bound by history and materiality&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/Essays on Algorithmic Culture\">Essays on Algorithmic Culture<\/a>, p. 1)<\/p>\n<h1>Sid Meier&#8217;s <em>Civilization<\/em><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kYPjwHIF5R8#t=0m49s\"><strong>Introduction to <em>Civilization<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=La6dEBvOGPc\">Conquering and winning <em>Civilization<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bread and Circuses, Carrots and Sticks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Martial Law:<\/strong> By adding a military unit to the city, the rioting stops.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Luxuries:<\/strong> The tax rate is split among revenue, science, and luxuries. Tax rate increases the money the civilization can spend; science rate increases speed up the next discovery; and luxury rate increases make\u00a0citizens happy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Entertainers:<\/strong> By pulling a worker off resources or agricultural duty, the city can add an entertainer to increase happiness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Temples or Cathedrals:<\/strong> Religion is the opiate of the masses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coliseum:<\/strong> Distractions keep people from rioting. Bread and circuses worked for Rome; why can\u2019t they work for the virtual Rome?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Government Types<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3rHe3qtS800#t=8m57s\">Governing your civilization<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Government Algorithms for&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>Despotism<\/li>\n<li>Monarchy<\/li>\n<li>Communism<\/li>\n<li>Republic<\/li>\n<li>Democracy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Even after demonstrating how Civilization reproduces American capitalist ideology, can we think differently about the game and see it as subversive?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier;font-size: 18pt\"><strong>IF<\/strong> city improvement built <strong>OR<\/strong> peace pursued <strong>THEN<\/strong> citizens happy;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier;font-size: 18pt\"><strong>IF<\/strong> citizen\u2019s wishes <strong>NOT<\/strong> met <strong>THEN<\/strong> RIOT!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Video Games Are Lev Manovich on New Media &#8220;Numerical representation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding&#8221; (The Language of New Media, p. 20) Alexander Galloway Definition &#8220;[a] video game is a cultural object, bound by history and materiality&#8221; (Essays on Algorithmic Culture, p. 1) Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization Introduction to Civilization Conquering and winning Civilization Bread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"parent":2035,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2044","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2HAOx-wY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2044\/revisions\/2053"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}