{"id":23624,"date":"2014-07-08T15:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23624"},"modified":"2014-07-08T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:10:28","slug":"experienced-points-the-video-game-industry-is-going-through-very-awkward-growing-pains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23624","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The Video Game Industry is Going Through Very Awkward Growing Pains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/11861-The-Video-Game-Industry-is-Going-Through-Very-Awkward-Growing-Pains\" title=\"Experienced Points: The Video Game Industry is Going Through Very Awkward Growing Pains\">odd column this week<\/a>. It actually began as a Diecast question. (Which I&#8217;ve misplaced. Sorry!) It was something along the lines of &#8220;Why are games so stuck in a rut?&#8221; But it didn&#8217;t make it into the Diecast. Then I tried to turn it into a blog post.  Then the thing sort of took on a life on its own. I started with speculating on what was going on at the major development houses, and wound up with this long comparison to Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m talking about Hollywood. Hopefully I didn&#8217;t butcher the history too hard. There&#8217;s only so much catching up you can do on Wikipedia before you have to buckle down and start writing.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s nice to be positive for once. Or if not positive, then at least not-negative. Hm. Maybe it was still kind of negative. But it was negative in an understanding way. Sorry. That&#8217;s the best I can do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an odd column this week. It actually began as a Diecast question. (Which I&#8217;ve misplaced. Sorry!) It was something along the lines of &#8220;Why are games so stuck in a rut?&#8221; But it didn&#8217;t make it into the Diecast. Then I tried to turn it into a blog post. Then the thing sort [&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":[],"class_list":["post-23624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23624","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=23624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}