{"id":1910,"date":"2012-05-17T21:58:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T20:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2012-05-17T21:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T20:58:44","slug":"lvl-50-on-kongregate-how-many-games-industry-people-say-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/17\/lvl-50-on-kongregate-how-many-games-industry-people-say-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Lvl 50 on Kongregate; how many games industry people say the same?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve played many hundreds – probably over a thousand – games on Kongregate alone, now.<\/p>\n

On top of all the thousands I’ve played on console, PC, flash, handheld, mobile, etc.<\/p>\n

I feel pretty confident in analysing game mechanics, and success\/fail reasons for given game-designs, based off my extensive experience.<\/p>\n

I frequently use my knowledge to influence design decisions and programming decisions in the games I work on.<\/p>\n

But how many people in the games industry can say the same?<\/p>\n

Hmm.<\/p>\n

(PS: many people claim to “have no time to play games – too busy working”; my view has always been: if you really care about the art and the craft of this industry, you’ll make the time. No question about it)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve played many hundreds – probably over a thousand – games on Kongregate alone, now. On top of all the thousands I’ve played on console, PC, flash, handheld, mobile, etc. I feel pretty confident in analysing game mechanics, and success\/fail reasons for given game-designs, based off my extensive experience. I frequently use my knowledge to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910"}],"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=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}