{"id":9882,"date":"2010-11-05T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9882"},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:57:45","slug":"experienced-points-amnesia-the-dark-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9882","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Amnesia: The Dark Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written quite a bit about survival horror in this space.  I was always talking about some far-flung future then game designers would &#8220;get it&#8221; and make a game that set out to cultivate fear rather than just daunting combat. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/8288-Experienced-Points-Amnesia-The-Dark-Descent\">It&#8217;s as if someone read those articles, and made the game according to my specifications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good game.  It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesiagame.com\/#buy\">cheap<\/a> game. It&#8217;s much smarter than Dead Space and many times as scary. I like to think that if this thing had marketing behind it, it would be tearing up the sales charts. (But maybe not. The imagery is really disturbing. I find realistic text descriptions of human torture to be a lot more frightening than gross space aliens being splattered by my shotgun in full 3D.)  <\/p>\n<p>As always, your mileage may vary. Do give it a look if you&#8217;re interested in this sort of thing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written quite a bit about survival horror in this space. I was always talking about some far-flung future then game designers would &#8220;get it&#8221; and make a game that set out to cultivate fear rather than just daunting combat. It&#8217;s as if someone read those articles, and made the game according to my specifications. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9882","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\/9882","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=9882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}