{"id":11356,"date":"2015-10-28T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T13:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/if-we-are-not-articulate-about-what-these-games\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T13:51:42","slug":"if-we-are-not-articulate-about-what-these-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/if-we-are-not-articulate-about-what-these-games\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If we are not articulate about what these games are and do, then we undermine the work of the artists behind them. When a crowd of gamers is able to collectively introduce and popularize the term \u201cwalking simulator\u201d as a term of derision before this movement can find a broader voice, then the medium suffers a regression towards safe, conservative tastes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Miguel Penabella<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/killscreendaily.com\/articles\/why-are-we-so-afraid-walk\/\">http:\/\/killscreendaily.com\/articles\/why-are-we-so-afraid-walk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/notgames.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">notgames<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we are not articulate about what these games are and do, then we undermine the work of the artists behind them. When a crowd of gamers is able to collectively introduce and popularize the term \u201cwalking simulator\u201d as a term of derision before this movement can find a broader voice, then the medium suffers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Xa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}