{"id":10591,"date":"2011-02-04T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T22:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10591"},"modified":"2011-02-04T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T22:13:17","slug":"experienced-points-the-crime-of-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10591","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The Crime of Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/8625-Experienced-Points-The-Crime-of-Punishment\">Today&#8217;s column<\/a> is something I wish I&#8217;d covered way back when I did my video on Prince of Persia:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fw_upFVDIkQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fw_upFVDIkQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Basically, I should have made the difference between &#8220;harder&#8221; and &#8220;more punishing&#8221; more explicit. I don&#8217;t know that it would have blunted the resulting controversy, but it would have made the ensuing debate a little less muddled. <\/p>\n<p>If you read the comments on that video, you&#8217;ll see a lot of people really object &#8211; <strong>strongly<\/strong> &#8211; to my thoughts on Prince of Persia.  Some people get angry at the suggestion that games should be less punishing.  I still don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re confusing punishment with difficulty, or if they really insist that a game must create artificial setbacks in order to be enjoyable.  It will be interesting to see how things play out in the comments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s column is something I wish I&#8217;d covered way back when I did my video on Prince of Persia: Link (YouTube) Basically, I should have made the difference between &#8220;harder&#8221; and &#8220;more punishing&#8221; more explicit. I don&#8217;t know that it would have blunted the resulting controversy, but it would have made the ensuing debate a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}