{"id":1103,"date":"2007-06-05T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2007-06-05T06:00:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T11:00:37","slug":"lumines-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1103","title":{"rendered":"Lumines: Art?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width='384'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/lumines.jpg' class='insetimage' width='384' alt='lumines.jpg' title='lumines.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table>I played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminesgame.com\/uk\/\">Lumines<\/a> on a friend&#8217;s PSP before and found the game to be elegant and deeply satisfying.  Looking back to the debate I <a href=\"?p=1090\">on videogames as art<\/a>, Lumines contains none of the elements I listed.  It has no story, no characters, no places to explore, no dialog, no acting.  Like Tetris, it is a simple game of moving things around to make things happen.  Yet I would still classify it as art.  Not just because of the music, but the experience <em>itself<\/em> appeals in some pure way that makes me point and say, &#8220;This is art.&#8221;  No, that&#8217;s no true, I don&#8217;t point.  I can&#8217;t.  Fingers busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played Lumines on a friend&#8217;s PSP before and found the game to be elegant and deeply satisfying. Looking back to the debate I on videogames as art, Lumines contains none of the elements I listed. It has no story, no characters, no places to explore, no dialog, no acting. Like Tetris, it is 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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","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=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}