{"id":1279,"date":"2011-02-13T18:08:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T17:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2011-02-13T18:08:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T17:08:01","slug":"games-theyre-meant-to-be-fun-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/13\/games-theyre-meant-to-be-fun-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Games &#8230; they&#8217;re meant to be fun, no?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s much easier for journalists to write stories about doom and gloom &#8211; you get the emotional outbursts from stressed people, you get stories (of rags to riches to rags; of loss and pathos; of fear and uncertainty; above all: of the contrast between &#8220;playing games&#8221; and &#8220;making them&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainlyaboutgames.co.uk\/2011\/02\/hey-journalists\/\">&#8220;How about you write an in-depth article championing the awesome free games being made on shoe-string budgets by individual developers, or micro-teams, in their spare time?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s much easier for journalists to write stories about doom and gloom &#8211; you get the emotional outbursts from stressed people, you get stories (of rags to riches to rags; of loss and pathos; of fear and uncertainty; above all: of the contrast between &#8220;playing games&#8221; and &#8220;making them&#8221;). But&#8230; &#8220;How about you write an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}