{"id":37072,"date":"2012-05-02T05:30:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/sexy-videogameland-yes-this-2\/"},"modified":"2012-05-02T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T05:30:33","slug":"sexy-videogameland-yes-this-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/sexy-videogameland-yes-this-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexy Videogameland: Yes, This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/sexyvideogameland.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/yes-this.html'>Sexy Videogameland: Yes, This<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\">Yes, This<\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\">\n<div class=\"post-header-line-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\" id=\"post-body-7758075557635780219\"><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0&quot;There was\u00a0<strong>no evil executive<\/strong>\u00a0coming in from on high telling us to make the game more lowbrow. The team was\u00a0<strong>not\u00a0<\/strong>a bunch of sniveling adolescent boys (a couple were, to be honest, but most were of the aforementioned good type). I think instead that\u00a0<strong>the problem was structural<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0deeply structural to the product itself, at a level where no amount of \u201csmart\u201d versus \u201cdumb\u201d choices can really change things. One of those games centered around\u00a0<strong>shooting aliens with guns\u00a0<\/strong>and lasers. Another was about navigating an environment and<strong>\u00a0punching people<\/strong>\u00a0until they died.<\/div>\n<div>The very second you try to wrap actions like those in a \u201cgood story\u201d that does not somehow address\u00a0<strong>what happens during the mechanical part\u00a0<\/strong>of the experience is the second you fail to write a good story.&ldquo;<\/div>\n<div>&ndash;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicalwasteland.com\/mw\/2012\/5\/1\/dumbness-in-games-or-the-animal-as-a-system.html\">\u00a0M. Wasteland, &quot;Dumbness in Games, or the Animal as a System<\/a>&quot;\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexy Videogameland: Yes, This Yes, This \u00a0&quot;There was\u00a0no evil executive\u00a0coming in from on high telling us to make the game more lowbrow. The team was\u00a0not\u00a0a bunch of sniveling adolescent boys (a couple were, to be honest, but most were of the aforementioned good type). I think instead that\u00a0the problem was structural\u2014\u00a0deeply structural to the product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","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":[1539],"class_list":["post-37072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9DW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072","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=37072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}