{"id":100,"date":"2007-01-28T02:07:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T00:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2007-01-28T02:07:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T00:07:24","slug":"kgeography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"KGeography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenman.co.za\/b2evolution\/blogs\/index.php?p=297&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">A while ago<\/a> I got addicted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craziness.com\/games\/geography-game-africa\">Africa Geography Game<\/a>, a silly addictive Flash game that tests one&#8217;s knowledge of African geography.<\/p>\n<p>At the back of my mind I&#8217;ve been considering writing a proper application that does something similar, but is much more flexible, testing capitals, flags, etc. Luckily  anyone interested in the idea won&#8217;t have to wait for me to do it as it already exists. <a href=\"http:\/\/kgeography.berlios.de\/index.php\">KGeography<\/a> is a great educational game written for (surprise surprise) KDE.<\/p>\n<p>There are 5 <em>modes<\/em>, as opposed to the one of the Flash game. A player can be given a name, and asked to choose the right country (or region, province etc) from a map, be asked to choose based upon capital city, asked to supply the capital (multiple choice), choose based upon flag, or choose the flag based upon country.<\/p>\n<p>Now you know the kind of thing that excites me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/kgeography\" rel=\"tag\">KGeography<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/maps\" rel=\"tag\">maps<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/linux\" rel=\"tag\">linux<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/kde\" rel=\"tag\">KDE<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/games\" rel=\"tag\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/educational+games\" rel=\"tag\">educational+games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I got addicted to the Africa Geography Game, a silly addictive Flash game that tests one&#8217;s knowledge of African geography. At the back of my mind I&#8217;ve been considering writing a proper application that does something similar, but is much more flexible, testing capitals, flags, etc. Luckily anyone interested in the idea&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=100\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KGeography<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}