{"id":14772,"date":"2014-12-16T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T21:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/by-breaking-down-the-elements-of-character-into\/"},"modified":"2014-12-16T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T21:49:57","slug":"by-breaking-down-the-elements-of-character-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/by-breaking-down-the-elements-of-character-into\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;By breaking down the elements of character into small chunks and re-combining them based on randomness and, more important, responses to the player\u2019s choices, Shadow of Mordor tells a story that could never exist in another medium,&rdquo; Levine writes. &ldquo;If the audience could somehow change a plot point in Death of a Salesman, the narrative would break. If they could change something in BioShock Infinite, the story would break. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;But you can change the narrative in Shadow of Mordor \u2014 kill an important character, fail an important mission\u200a \u2014 and the story heals itself, because the system can create new characters on the fly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/12\/16\/7403349\/shadow-of-mordor-ken-levine-bioshock\">What BioShock\u2019s creator learned from Shadow of Mordor | Polygon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok maybe I need to pick up Shadow of Mordor after all.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.davidchartier.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">chartier<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;By breaking down the elements of character into small chunks and re-combining them based on randomness and, more important, responses to the player\u2019s choices, Shadow of Mordor tells a story that could never exist in another medium,&rdquo; Levine writes. &ldquo;If the audience could somehow change a plot point in Death of a Salesman, the narrative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14772","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-3Qg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14772","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=14772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}