{"374831":{"#nid":"374831","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech Game Developer Explains the Counterintuitive Secret to Fun","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFrom Mary Poppins, we\u2019ve learned that sugar helps medicine go down. The idea is that the unenjoyable parts of life can be rendered fun with the addition of a little sweet something extra. As game designer and theorist Ian Bogost sees it, Poppins has been peddling bunk.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 16:17:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:54","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"in solidarity","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/12\/game-designer-explains-counterintuitive-secret-fun\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}