{"id":27162,"date":"2014-07-08T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-plea-for-openness\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:14:32","slug":"a-plea-for-openness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-plea-for-openness\/","title":{"rendered":"A plea for openness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notgames.tumblr.com\/post\/91136636207\/a-plea-for-openness\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">notgames<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now that there\u2019s so much willingness, technology and skill to create beautiful virtual worlds, it\u2019s disappointing how many videogames cling to obstacle-based designs. As if players have to earn the privilege to explore by passing an irrelevant test. Now is the time to open up this medium, to let go of our affections and addictions, of our loyalty to childhood memories, to open up the beauty of videogames for the world to see.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody wants to visit our worlds, to interact with our characters, to play a role in our stories. Don\u2019t let them down! Give them access. Let design mean <strong>the building of bridges and the opening of doors<\/strong>, not the hiding of keys and the cowardly sniper shot. Welcome the player with open arms, be an entertaining host. Don\u2019t pull the rug from under them or harass them just because you enjoy that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I admit I\u2019m being selfish. I see so many alluring worlds in videogames. I really want to visit them but virtually without fail, it takes less than five minutes to run into an obstacle that I don\u2019t have the heart to overcome. An enemy, a platform, a puzzle or a simple pit. The game promises hours of exploration but forces me to quit at the very start. These days I spend more time buying and downloading games than playing them. I want to play. Please help!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>People \u2014like me\u2014 want to see your creation, we are interested in what you have invented. Don\u2019t shut us out. Don\u2019t turn your new friends away. Be nice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Micha\u00ebl Samyn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>notgames: Now that there\u2019s so much willingness, technology and skill to create beautiful virtual worlds, it\u2019s disappointing how many videogames cling to obstacle-based designs. As if players have to earn the privilege to explore by passing an irrelevant test. Now is the time to open up this medium, to let go of our affections and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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-27162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-746","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27162","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=27162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}