{"id":2048,"date":"2008-12-29T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2008-12-29T07:12:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T12:12:58","slug":"reset-button-most-innovative-game-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2048","title":{"rendered":"Reset Button: Most Innovative Game of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the video project I&#8217;ve been working on.  Part documentary, part op-ed, it tries to make the case that the game nobody is talking about is the most innovative game of 2008.  This game is a gateway drug.  And we need more of those.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dmnotes\">Navel-gazing follows:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not thrilled with how it turned out.  I&#8217;m not crazy about the titles &#038; credits, there are clicks and pops in a couple of spots because Windows Movie Maker sucks, I had to cut most of my crude and feeble attempts at humor to meet the 10-minute YouTube limit, and my diction was sloppy in a couple of places. And while I&#8217;m at it, &#8220;Reset Button&#8221; probably isn&#8217;t the most catchy or original thing to call it, but you gotta call it <em>something<\/em>. I thought I should call it something retro and old-timey.  Maybe &#8220;Penny Arcade&#8221;?  I should Google and see if anyone is using that.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.  I&#8217;ve wanted to get this out of my system for a while now.  I imagine it will stand or fall based on the ideas it contains, not on my various technical deficiencies. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve sufficiently lowered your expectations, here is the fruit of my labors:<\/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>1,000 geek points to whoever can identify the music in the end credits.  And I&#8217;m serious about the question I ask towards the end:  Do you need a game to <em>punish<\/em> you for failure in order to enjoy victory?  (I&#8217;m not just talking about blocking progress until you overcome the challenge, but taking away existing progress when you fail.) Does making the punishment more punitive make winning more fun?<\/p>\n<p>Share and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the video project I&#8217;ve been working on. Part documentary, part op-ed, it tries to make the case that the game nobody is talking about is the most innovative game of 2008. This game is a gateway drug. And we need more of those. Navel-gazing follows: I&#8217;m not thrilled with how it turned out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[145,36],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast","tag-game-over","tag-prince-of-persia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","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=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}