{"id":5,"date":"2006-12-15T03:38:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T03:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/linfa\/play\/?p=5"},"modified":"2006-12-15T03:38:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T03:38:43","slug":"head-in-the-clouds-and-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2006\/12\/15\/head-in-the-clouds-and-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Head in the Clouds and Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about commanding armies, fighting monsters or killing soldiers from the Third Reich. Take a breath of fresh, creative air with these to, poetic games :\u00a0<a title=\"Cloud Game\" href=\"http:\/\/thatgamecompany.com\/games\/cloud\/\">Cloud<\/a> and <a title=\"Welcome to Flow in Games\" href=\"http:\/\/thatgamecompany.com\/games\/flow\/pc\/\">Flow<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jenovachen.com\/flowingames\/jenovachen.htm\" target=\"_self\">Xinghan &#8220;Jenova&#8221; Chen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will understand why they were presented at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.experimental-gameplay.org\/\" target=\"_self\">experimental gameplay workshop<\/a> and received several awards since.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about his wonderful philosophy, don&#8217;t miss his presentation about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenovachen.com\/flowingames\/thesis.htm\">Flow in Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After spending too many hours grinding through the same tasks, killing wave after wave of the same monsters, fighting incomplete games with incomplete patches, repeating the same parts of a game again and again because nobody thought about allowing a proper save mechanism&#8230; I wish more game designers and their marketer masters would pay attention to these principles.<\/p>\n<p>Games should be fun !<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ee\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about commanding armies, fighting monsters or killing soldiers from the Third Reich. Take a breath of fresh, creative air with these to, poetic games :\u00a0Cloud and Flow\u00a0by\u00a0Xinghan &#8220;Jenova&#8221; Chen You will understand why they were presented at the\u00a0experimental gameplay workshop and received several awards since. For more details about his wonderful philosophy, don&#8217;t miss his presentation about\u00a0Flow in Games.&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2006\/12\/15\/head-in-the-clouds-and-flow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,33],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-gaming","tag-independant","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/flow1.jpg?fit=575%2C323","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8frwa-5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}