{"id":1883,"date":"2014-08-11T14:54:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2014-08-11T14:54:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:54:06","slug":"on-monument-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2014\/08\/on-monument-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"On Monument Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To me, the very first thing that made me smile playing Monument Valley was that I touched something and it played some sound effect\/music. It\u2019s a very raw connection. It\u2019s not to annoy parents that we have toys with sound effects, it\u2019s just that they create that smile, they validate the feedback loop: I touch\/pull\/scratch this, I get audio feedback. It\u2019s a very real life<\/em> mechanism, it makes things alive. It is not weird science or an obsession from my part, it is key in the process of enjoying a tactile experience.<\/p>\n

It is sad that even the developers don\u2019t really see this as part of their game\u2019s experience. I wouldn\u2019t say as a first point \u201cbeautiful, intuitive visuals\u201d<\/em> but more like \u201cplayful, intriguing audiovisuals\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To me, the very first thing that made me smile playing Monument Valley was that I touched something and it played some sound effect\/music. It\u2019s a very raw connection. It\u2019s not to annoy parents that we have toys with sound effects, it\u2019s just that they create that smile, they validate the feedback loop: I touch\/pull\/scratch […]<\/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\/1883"}],"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=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}