{"id":1970,"date":"2015-03-07T16:32:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T16:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2015-03-07T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T16:32:15","slug":"old-and-bold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2015\/03\/old-and-bold\/","title":{"rendered":"Old and Bold"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a little sour article on turning 50 and making games<\/a>. I\u2019d like to point some things out that I think we all take for being normal or the default setting and shouldn\u2019t at all.<\/p>\n

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Game development has always had an uncomfortable relationship with age and experience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let\u2019s just ask ourselves this: where in the world a really complex field is overlooking experience? Age shouldn\u2019t even be an issue, experience means you\u2019re going to be older because that\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n

Game development, a really hard and complex field, has a culture that almost bullies experience (I remember people making fun of Chris Crawford<\/a>, have some respect young, pantless padawans).<\/p>\n

This shouldn\u2019t be OK at all. This is so fucking weird and needs to stop. In other \u201cpassion-driven\u201d industries, people seek experience and people respect experienced people. That\u2019s how the craft progresses but whatever.<\/p>\n

So when I read the conclusion that  \u201chey, I still love what I do\u201d<\/em> as the pinnacle of 22 years of game development, it kind of breaks my heart. Laralyn, you know you could be feeling way better than that. You should receive Lifetime Achievement Awards and have younger game developers come to see you at GDC to take selfies with you and buying your games and design books.<\/p>\n

instead we have a panel at the GDC this year talking about ageism<\/a>. At 35 I\u2019m entering the \u201cold age\u201d which is some serious bullshit but yeah, that\u2019s the market. I hope this will shift as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

I also really hope for broader games. I talked in the past (back in \u201808<\/a>) about games for seniors. Tons of room for innovation and steady, sustainable game development. I would be thrilled to work on that. We\u2019re just getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a little sour article on turning 50 and making games. I\u2019d like to point some things out that I think we all take for being normal or the default setting and shouldn\u2019t at all. Game development has always had an uncomfortable relationship with age and experience. Let\u2019s just ask ourselves this: where in the […]<\/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\/1970"}],"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=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}