{"id":1361,"date":"2012-04-19T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2012\/04\/jon-and-me\/"},"modified":"2012-04-19T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:21:08","slug":"jon-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2012\/04\/jon-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon and me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Blow interview<\/a>, widely shared all across the internet. Once again feeling so close to his vision and processes, I would have probably done what he did after Braid except buying an electric car: I would have made me a prefab green house instead. But, same idea.<\/p>\n

What the article and comments highlight one more time is the complete lack of understanding of how games are made and what is important when building them. The Witness\u2019 dev blog doesn\u2019t spend a lot of time on the story but quite a lot describing the world editor, cube map filtering techniques, puzzle count and architecture. Full-on game design.<\/p>\n

I think people freak out on him talking about the juvenile, silly and intellectually lazy state of the game culture because the hardcore market is shrinking pretty fast and that makes a lot of people cranky. Less and less people are enjoying the juvenile and silly on consoles. So many mobile games are silly and juvenile but people play a few minutes here and there, it\u2019s less embarrassing. I much prefer when people say \u201cyes, it\u2019s juvenile so what\u201d<\/em> than people feeling offended by this statement, kind of in denial.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s game culture is silly but it doesn\u2019t mean that you can\u2019t have fun with it, nobody said that. I bought Just Cause 2 and I\u2019d like to get Saint Row the Third because I know I\u2019ll have a good time but that doesn\u2019t mean that I have to love it to death. I still haven\u2019t play these games and don\u2019t feel like I failed at life not playing them either. Chill.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t like everything in Braid, haven\u2019t finished it but I liked a lot of stuff. Brilliant stuff. Synapse-creating stuff.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t get that part of the game culture where you have to vouch for everything or otherwise you are pointed out as a complete pretentious douchebag. If you like and search for different games, trying to expand this game culture, you are a complete pretentious douchebag too.<\/p>\n

If it doesn\u2019t show how juvenile we are, I don\u2019t know what does.<\/p>\n

And everybody writing about games for a living, fucking please: stop focusing on story in games. Just stop. That\u2019s not what it\u2019s about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Blow interview, widely shared all across the internet. Once again feeling so close to his vision and processes, I would have probably done what he did after Braid except buying an electric car: I would have made me a prefab green house instead. But, same idea. What the article and comments highlight one more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}