{"id":38,"date":"2017-02-01T23:04:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T23:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/writing-a-depressing-game\/"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:44:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T03:44:43","slug":"writing-a-depressing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/writing-a-depressing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a\u00a0\u201cdepressing\u201d game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right after the election, I found comfort in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poems\/detail\/89897\">Maggie Smith\u2019s \u201cGood Bones.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0I find it beautiful and inspiring. The world is a terrible, messed up, fucked up place. And it\u2019s also beautiful. And even more importantly, <b>you get to decide<\/b>\u00a0how you live in it. You can make it beautiful. I shared this poem in a group chat with friends as a pick me up. My friend said he found it depressing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Maggie\u2019s words and the election were both huge inspirations for my game-poem \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/sample\/sky-is-falling-game\/\">The Sky is Falling.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0The world may be falling apart, but we can choose how to walk through it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/8d5449e530447fc40806c8281956e0b4\/tumblr_inline_okpxlmuZaD1ud5gu2_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>My hope with the piece is that it\u2019s up to you as the player where to put your focus. It\u2019s easy to focus on the left-hand-side of the poem. The strong images of doom and gloom. It\u2019s harder to focus on the fewer, quieter words of peace on the right-hand-side. Despite the fucked up world, you can still choose to move forwards.<\/p>\n<p>After releasing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/sample\">The Start Issue<\/a>, I was talking to my brother about it. He said he found the first game depressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right after the election, I found comfort in Maggie Smith\u2019s \u201cGood Bones.\u201d\u00a0I find it beautiful and inspiring. The world is a terrible, messed up, fucked up place. And it\u2019s also beautiful. And even more importantly, you get to decide\u00a0how you live in it. You can make it beautiful. I shared this poem in a group&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/01\/writing-a-depressing-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing a\u00a0\u201cdepressing\u201d game<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[29,7,28,11,27],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-dev","tag-depression","tag-gamedev","tag-good-bones","tag-indiedev","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}