{"id":2128,"date":"2009-02-13T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T22:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2009-02-13T17:38:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T22:38:41","slug":"experienced-points-the-final-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2128","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The Final Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new column up over at the Escapist, talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/editorials\/op-ed\/5753-The-Final-Boss\">the conflict between story and gameplay that arises at the end of a game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some people were concerned that Experienced Points would mean I would be writing less here on this site.  That&#8217;s certainly possible.  I&#8217;m probably red-lining right now as far as output goes, and a stretch of day-job overtime or illness will certainly cut into the blog, but after two weeks I seem to be able to keep up the pace without too many problems. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how it goes.  It&#8217;s pretty fun so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new column up over at the Escapist, talking about the conflict between story and gameplay that arises at the end of a game. Some people were concerned that Experienced Points would mean I would be writing less here on this site. That&#8217;s certainly possible. I&#8217;m probably red-lining right now as far as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","tag-experienced-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","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=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}