{"id":548267,"date":"2006-03-17T06:18:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T06:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548267-online-game-with-a-conscience.html"},"modified":"2006-03-17T06:18:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T06:18:13","slug":"online-game-with-a-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548267-online-game-with-a-conscience.html","title":{"rendered":"Online game with a conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">That is the concept of a new online game commissioned by the government and developed by Shanda Interactive Entertainment, a NASDAQ-listed Chinese software company, state media says. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>In a drastic departure from the &quot;shoot-&#8217;em-up, kill-&#8217;em-all&quot; philosophy permeating many successful online games, Shanda&#8217;s product encourages thrift and polite manners, Xinhua news agency reports. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The new game is called &quot;Learning from Comrade Lei Feng,&quot; after a legendary and possibly fictitious soldier who assumed iconic status during the height of Maoist fervour in the 1960s. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>If he ever existed, Lei Feng died in an accident in 1962 at the age of 22, but by that tender age he had already performed so many selfless deeds that China&#8217;s communist rulers decided to make him a model for the nation. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Lei Feng has lived something of a shadow existence in the reform era, but has now been picked out of retirement to inspire a new generation of Chinese, according to Xinhua. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The game is just one in a series, called &quot;Register of Chinese Heroes,&quot; that Shanda has been commissioned to develop by a government worried by all the sex and violence on the Internet, earlier reports said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Other heroes set to teach China&#8217;s youth proper values include Zheng He, a Chinese admiral and Muslim eunuch who led a series of epic voyages of exploration as far away as the east coast of Africa 600 years ago. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/><i>Inet-Bridge<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help old people across the street, or gently dissuade strangers from swearing and spitting, and you may have a chance of seeing Chairman Mao on Tiananmen Square and even get his autograph. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}