{"id":84,"date":"2009-08-31T21:06:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T01:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-08-31T21:06:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T01:06:57","slug":"games-catch-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/games-catch-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Games catch on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that one way Esperanto could receive a good deal of notice is if it appeared in a popular video game. Perhaps appearing as a coded language of some kind would motivate people to learn it. As matters stand, I&#8217;ve only glimpsed Esperanto in one video game: the weird and wonderful Katamari Damacy.<\/p>\n<p>One of the characters greets you with &#8220;<strong>saluton<\/strong>!&#8221; in the beginning of Katamari Damacy&#8217;s final level. I find it appropriate that the greeting comes from the purported &#8220;King of All Cosmos.&#8221; He rules the universe, so of course he&#8217;d approve of a universal language! You can glimpse a video of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cmfBALhBwkw\">on YouTube<\/a>. I highly recommend the game or any of its sequels, too&#8230;It&#8217;s rather hilarious, as the rest of the video suggests!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that one way Esperanto could receive a good deal of notice is if it appeared in a popular video game. Perhaps appearing as a coded language of some kind would motivate people to learn it. 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