{"id":403,"date":"2012-02-01T16:29:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2012-02-01T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T17:00:26","slug":"kerry-turner-and-simon-parkin-i-get-so-emotional-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Turner and Simon Parkin: I Get So Emotional Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.playsweatshop.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-404\" title=\"Sweatshop\" src=\"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kerry-simon-sweatshop.jpg\" alt=\"Sweatshop\" width=\"530\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kerry-simon-sweatshop.jpg 530w, https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kerry-simon-sweatshop-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kerry and\u00a0Simon both work for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/littleloud.com\/\">LittleLoud<\/a>, and\u00a0one of\u00a0their recent games was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playsweatshop.com\/\">Sweatshop<\/a>. Sweatshop made me feel horrifically guilty, because running my\u00a0factory at\u00a0optimum efficiency and\u00a0profitability meant employing little slave kids to\u00a0put on\u00a0the\u00a0end of\u00a0my\u00a0production line. It&#8217;s brilliant because it feels like gaming you know, but is making you do dreadful things to\u00a0succeed.<\/p>\n<p>This session will explore that idea and&nbsp;some related ones. It reminds me a&nbsp;little of&nbsp;Jenova Chen talking about time attack modes in&nbsp;early prototypes of&nbsp;Flower, which they removed because <nobr>play-testers<\/nobr> were screaming &#8220;fuck yeah!&#8221; at&nbsp;new records, and&nbsp;that wasn&#8217;t quite what the&nbsp;designers were going for. This isn&#8217;t about some stupid question like &#8220;Can games make you cry?&#8221;, it&#8217;s not a&nbsp;Countdown To&nbsp;Tears\u2122. It&#8217;s about nuanced game design. How do games make you feel angry, or&nbsp;guilty, or&nbsp;dirty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry and\u00a0Simon both work for\u00a0LittleLoud, and\u00a0one of\u00a0their recent games was Sweatshop. Sweatshop made me feel horrifically guilty, because running my\u00a0factory at\u00a0optimum efficiency and\u00a0profitability meant employing little slave kids to\u00a0put on\u00a0the\u00a0end of\u00a0my\u00a0production line. It&#8217;s brilliant because it feels like gaming you know, but is making you do dreadful things to\u00a0succeed. This session will explore that idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}