{"id":2550,"date":"2018-03-12T17:27:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2018-03-12T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T17:27:48","slug":"jason-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2018\/03\/jason-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onehouronelife.com\/newsPage.php?postID=377\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Rohrer on his last released game<\/a>, One Hour One Life.<\/p>\n<p><em>But if the games press isn&#8217;t relevant anymore, how do people find out about new games? There are two ways: word of mouth, and YouTube videos. Word of mouth has always been the most important factor for any game, I think.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Word of mouth is insanely powerful. It\u2019s random, unchecked, pervasive. It just happens. I keep hearing about FortNite even though I don\u2019t play it nor do I see people play it nor do I watch people play that game. But it\u2019s around and that makes me want to try it.<\/p>\n<p><em>I designed One Hour One Life intentionally to operate well in this new paradigm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a crucial statement. I\u2019ve always heard developers talk about making the game they want to play but I always felt that this was not necessarily business-savvy. Jason didn\u2019t hesitate and designed his game so that it works with how people \u201cbehave\u201d with new games. Very interesting and apparently, successful.<\/p>\n<p>I hope it gives other developers ideas. Let\u2019s free ourselves from silos a bit, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Rohrer on his last released game, One Hour One Life. But if the games press isn&#8217;t relevant anymore, how do people find out about new games? There are two ways: word of mouth, and YouTube videos. Word of mouth has always been the most important factor for any game, I think. Word of mouth [&hellip;]<\/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\/2550"}],"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=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}