{"id":8660,"date":"2010-07-15T18:17:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T23:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2010-07-15T18:51:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T23:51:41","slug":"world-of-warcraft-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8660","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft: Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m playing WoW again, and mucking around trying to remember all my old macros and get the interface just so.  Sometimes in my googling about I&#8217;ll come across images like this one:<\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><a href='images\/wow_raid_interface.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/wow_raid_interface.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='wow_raid_interface.jpg' title='wow_raid_interface.jpg'\/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the game doesn&#8217;t look like this until you get to the endgame, and I understand that not all classes turn into giant control panels, but it&#8217;s still an amazing thing to behold.  I can&#8217;t think of anything else in gaming that gets to be this complex.  Not X-com.  Not the number-crunchy sports management games. Not the turn-based war sims. No RTS game expects you to digest this much input and I&#8217;ve never seen this many buttons onscreen at once in any of them.  <\/p>\n<p>There are probably games with more strategic depth, but in terms of interface density, WoW (and similar games) are playthings of tremendous complexity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m playing WoW again, and mucking around trying to remember all my old macros and get the interface just so. Sometimes in my googling about I&#8217;ll come across images like this one: Of course, the game doesn&#8217;t look like this until you get to the endgame, and I understand that not all classes turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660","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=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}