{"id":24618,"date":"2014-10-09T15:09:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T20:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24618"},"modified":"2014-10-09T15:09:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T20:09:33","slug":"heres-52-minutes-of-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24618","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s 52 Minutes of Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking game: Take a drink whenever Josh accidentally throws a desired item on the floor. (It&#8217;s been nice knowing you.) Receiver is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwop.mobi\/\">QWOP<\/a> of firearm usage. <\/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\/pYnafn6x_1c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pYnafn6x_1c'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"?p=20393\">I reviewed this game last year<\/a>. It&#8217;s a complete gigglefest for sure. <\/p>\n<p>I really like the complex gun mechanics. I&#8217;d love to have another game with a similar system, only perhaps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Not quite so user-unfriendly. I think a lot of the myriad inputs could be condensed. Maybe use the same button to insert or eject a mag, for example. And I think things like &#8220;un-equip your gun so you can load the mag&#8221; could be implicit. We should focus on simulating the complexities of the firearm, not the complexities of hands. (Especially in a game where you can&#8217;t see your hands.)\n<li>Maybe not so murderously unforgiving. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with roguelike games in principle, but as a matter of taste I&#8217;d rather learn something new and difficult in a system of positive feedback than one based on negative feedback.\n<\/ol>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s phenomenal what the developer accomplished with limited time and resources. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking game: Take a drink whenever Josh accidentally throws a desired item on the floor. (It&#8217;s been nice knowing you.) Receiver is the QWOP of firearm usage. Link (YouTube) I reviewed this game last year. It&#8217;s a complete gigglefest for sure. I really like the complex gun mechanics. I&#8217;d love to have another game with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-24618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-receiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618","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=24618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}