{"id":3498,"date":"2021-08-05T18:05:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2021-08-05T18:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:05:31","slug":"candidvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2021\/08\/candidvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game development is in dire need of candid conversations. It\u2019s suffocating these days.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, game development\u2019s average career is now <strong>five years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>How dare we call that a career? Like what in the actual fuck five years are going to do for one\u2019s life? And you go to a game design school for a 3-year degree, $30K in debt for that? How ludicrous it is that we simply turn our heads away from such a terrible deal that is the reality for the padawans out there? My god.<\/p>\n<p>Gaming was worth $7.8B in 2000. It is now worth $180B. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s <strong>23 times more<\/strong> in 20 years, and careers are shorter than ever???? Make THAT make sense. Wait don\u2019t, it absolutely doesn\u2019t make sense at all.<\/p>\n<p>We very much need those conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game development is in dire need of candid conversations. It\u2019s suffocating these days. For instance, game development\u2019s average career is now five years. How dare we call that a career? Like what in the actual fuck five years are going to do for one\u2019s life? And you go to a game design school for a [&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\/3498"}],"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=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3499,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}