{"id":20501,"date":"2013-07-30T16:16:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T21:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20501"},"modified":"2013-07-30T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T21:16:54","slug":"experienced-points-the-ebert-of-videogames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20501","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The Ebert of Videogames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2013-07-09-warren-spector-wheres-gamings-roger-ebert\">Warren Spector had an article<\/a> asking there the &#8220;Ebert of Videogames&#8221; is. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.errantsignal.com\/blog\/?p=519\">Chris wrote this in response<\/a>, and Spector then followed up with a comment. On his blog. <\/p>\n<p>Which means that Warren Spector commented on Chris&#8217; blog. Which is fine. I mean, I&#8217;m not jealous. It&#8217;s great. I&#8217;m happy for Chris. Good for him. I&#8217;m fine. Everything&#8217;s fine. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/10492-The-Ebert-of-Videogames\">this week&#8217;s column<\/a> is a response to that, and also has some thoughts on the whole unfortunate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2013-07-29-phil-fish-quits-development-cancels-fez-ii\">Beer and Fish controversy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to comment on Beer &#038; Fish, you might want to wait until later today.  The podcast will be up soon, and in that we discuss the whole thing in detail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago Warren Spector had an article asking there the &#8220;Ebert of Videogames&#8221; is. Chris wrote this in response, and Spector then followed up with a comment. On his blog. Which means that Warren Spector commented on Chris&#8217; blog. Which is fine. I mean, I&#8217;m not jealous. It&#8217;s great. I&#8217;m happy for Chris. [&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-20501","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\/20501","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=20501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}