{"id":20273,"date":"2013-07-02T17:21:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20273"},"modified":"2013-07-02T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:21:54","slug":"experienced-points-tutorial-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20273","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Tutorial Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I mentioned <a href=\"?p=20197\" title=\"Bioshock EP7: Hold W to Win!\">BioShock&#8217;s thick-headed approach to tutorial popups<\/a>. I decided to talk about the idea a bit more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/10461-Tutorial-Torture?utm_source=latest&#038;utm_medium=index_carousel&#038;utm_campaign=all\" title=\"Tutorial Torture\">this week&#8217;s column<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people have praised Half-Life 2, and while I don&#8217;t disagree that HL2 had a really awesome tutorial (it helps that the time is spent worldbuilding and setting a mood and not just bossing the player around) I wonder how much of the slack we give to HL2 is due to the fact that you can pick a chapter of the game. Just about every other game insists that you start over from the beginning. The train station is awesome, but I&#8217;d be a lot less patient with it if I had to do it every time I wanted to fool around with the gravity gun or mow down some metro cops. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I mentioned BioShock&#8217;s thick-headed approach to tutorial popups. I decided to talk about the idea a bit more in this week&#8217;s column. A lot of people have praised Half-Life 2, and while I don&#8217;t disagree that HL2 had a really awesome tutorial (it helps that the time is spent worldbuilding and setting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-20273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-experienced-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273","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=20273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}