{"id":31353,"date":"2011-02-21T01:21:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T01:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/its-that-lack-of-differentiation-in-experience\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:26:53","slug":"its-that-lack-of-differentiation-in-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/its-that-lack-of-differentiation-in-experience\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31353 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/its-that-lack-of-differentiation-in-experience\/attachment\/31354\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lgy14lDzEz1qescwho1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s that lack of differentiation in experience and jobs that Garriott misses. &ldquo;There aren&rsquo;t really people that own a shop in town square and that&rsquo;s what they do, and they have a friend who&rsquo;s a fishermen, and that&rsquo;s what he does,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;With Ultima Online, what was so cool about it is that there were people who were just fishermen, and who never fought monsters, who didn&rsquo;t care to buy any armor or craft a sword\u2014they were fishermen.&rdquo; Garriott describes these characters going into the virtual pubs to drink beers and laughing at the fighters who go off and risk their lives. &ldquo;That kind of diversity of life has still never been recaptured in any game since, and it&rsquo;s something I hope to recapture in my next work,&rdquo; he said. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2011\/02\/lord-british-explains-what-ultima-online-did-better-than-anyone.ars\">Lord British on what games can learn from Ultima Online<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s that lack of differentiation in experience and jobs that Garriott misses. &ldquo;There aren&rsquo;t really people that own a shop in town square and that&rsquo;s what they do, and they have a friend who&rsquo;s a fishermen, and that&rsquo;s what he does,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;With Ultima Online, what was so cool about it is that there [&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-31353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-89H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31353","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=31353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31355,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31353\/revisions\/31355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}