{"id":30807,"date":"2011-09-16T12:19:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/critically-these-alternate-games-seem-like\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:17:45","slug":"critically-these-alternate-games-seem-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/critically-these-alternate-games-seem-like\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-30807 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/critically-these-alternate-games-seem-like\/attachment\/30808\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lrm7kkJNqs1qescwho1_400-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Critically, these alternate games seem like they\u2019re not going to be fun. And it\u2019s all very well to talk about how games don\u2019t have to be fun, they can be \u201cinteresting\u201d or \u201cchallenging\u201d or \u201cdisturbing\u201d and so on. This is true, but it\u2019s also true that basically nobody\u2019s going to play those games except the brave vanguard. The question then becomes whether the vanguard can convince anyone else to play them too. Unlike a lot of other media, games have kind of \u201cgrown up\u201d too fast \u2013 not in a maturity way, more in a giant meat-headed ogre kind of way. This meat-heat, often bellowing \u201cfun\u201d at the top of its lungs, is kind of hard to dislodge from its hulking position in the mainstream. In a lot of ways there simply wasn\u2019t time to establish alternate streams of \u201cwhat games can be\u201d before the juggernaut sat its ass down. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pippinbarr.com\/inininoutoutout\/\">inininoutoutout<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critically, these alternate games seem like they\u2019re not going to be fun. And it\u2019s all very well to talk about how games don\u2019t have to be fun, they can be \u201cinteresting\u201d or \u201cchallenging\u201d or \u201cdisturbing\u201d and so on. This is true, but it\u2019s also true that basically nobody\u2019s going to play those games except the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-80T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30807","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=30807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30809,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30807\/revisions\/30809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}