{"id":948,"date":"2012-04-02T14:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=948"},"modified":"2012-04-02T14:40:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:40:46","slug":"the-new-game-and-awkwardness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"The New Game, and Awkwardness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote and submitted a text-based game to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcomp.org\/\">IFComp <\/a>2010. The reviews were&#8230; well, they varied between &#8220;meh&#8221; and &#8220;I want to find this guy and\u00a0slap him around\u00a0for a few hours&#8221;. I used the medium to tell a specific story with the user choices varying the details &#8212; and the Choice of Games format just isn&#8217;t right for that sort of thing.\u00a0 I mean, &#8220;choice&#8221; is right there in the title.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last month or so I dug the game out and revamped it, ending up with a much better product. I&#8217;ve sent it off for review, and hope to see it up and running soon.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing. It&#8217;s set in the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, fine. No big deal. Except that I recently <a href=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=933\">did some stuff with the <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em> people<\/a>, and they just announced their new game, also set in the American Revolution. Awk. Ward.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Not my game\" src=\"http:\/\/static9.cdn.ubi.com\/en-US\/images\/ac3_screen_05tcm1942723.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"214\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not my game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, I guess in October we&#8217;ll see how much similarity there is between our stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote and submitted a text-based game to IFComp 2010. The reviews were&#8230; well, they varied between &#8220;meh&#8221; and &#8220;I want to find this guy and\u00a0slap him around\u00a0for a few hours&#8221;. I used the medium to tell a specific story with the user choices varying the details &#8212; and the Choice of Games format just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}