{"id":27749,"date":"2015-07-07T19:29:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T00:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27749"},"modified":"2015-07-07T19:29:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T00:29:19","slug":"experienced-points-the-perils-of-porting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27749","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The Perils of Porting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/14273-Why-Porting-Games-to-PC-Goes-Wrong?utm_source=latest&#038;utm_medium=index_carousel&#038;utm_campaign=all\">the difficulties of porting<\/a>. I hope it doesn&#8217;t come off like I&#8217;m making excuses for lousy ports. Yes, porting is a massive pain in the ass, but you still need to do it and you need to be thorough if you&#8217;re going to ask for 60 dollars<span class='snote' title='1'>Or in Australia: $60 and a kidney.<\/span> for your videogame entertainment product. <\/p>\n<p>Basically: Do it right, and I&#8217;ll do my best to help people feel sorry for all the hard work you had to do. Sell me a broken game and I&#8217;ll drag you over the coals.<\/p>\n<p>On a <em>totally unrelated<\/em> note: As of the writing, Arkham Knight has still not returned to the PC after being pulled by Warner Brothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is on the difficulties of porting. I hope it doesn&#8217;t come off like I&#8217;m making excuses for lousy ports. Yes, porting is a massive pain in the ass, but you still need to do it and you need to be thorough if you&#8217;re going to ask for 60 dollarsOr in Australia: [&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-27749","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\/27749","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=27749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}