{"id":31994,"date":"2010-10-28T11:57:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-see-the-poetic-imagination-as-one-source-for\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T11:57:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:57:53","slug":"i-see-the-poetic-imagination-as-one-source-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-see-the-poetic-imagination-as-one-source-for\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I see the \u201cpoetic imagination\u201d as one source for the joys of play. When I imagine through the world that a story, a poem, or a game has to offer, part of me is \u201cin the game\u201d and part of the game \u201cis in me\u201d. I cannot distinguish very easily between myself and this imaginary world. In those moments, where I allow myself to imagine freely while respecting the world the place has to offer, I am at my most playful. I see things that I did not see before. I feel things \u2013 fear, pleasure, anger, surprise, disgust \u2013 that I did not feel when I stood outside of the world and peered into it from a distance. That world calls out new emotions and experiences from me \u2013 Shadow of the Colossus is no longer a series of quests with colossi that must be overcome in order to complete it, but an austere landscape that allows Agro\u2019s trot, canter and gallop, to explode with vitality. Watching Agro run, and imagining the wild thunder of its hoofbeats echoing across the canyon, is a pleasure of its own. Feeling the awesome earthquake of a colossi\u2019s footfalls as Wander stumbles madly to get away is frightening. As I play and use the world\u2019s contours to enrich my imagination, I am reminded that I not only have a body, but that I am a body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Chris Lepine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artfulgamer.com\/2010\/08\/31\/the-neurotic-joy-of-gaming\/\">The Neurotic Joy of Gaming<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/metopal.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">metopal<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see the \u201cpoetic imagination\u201d as one source for the joys of play. When I imagine through the world that a story, a poem, or a game has to offer, part of me is \u201cin the game\u201d and part of the game \u201cis in me\u201d. I cannot distinguish very easily between myself and this imaginary [&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":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8k2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31994","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=31994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}