{"id":4287,"date":"2006-07-14T20:30:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T02:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamdawn.com\/sh\/post_view.php?index=4287"},"modified":"2006-07-14T20:30:43","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T02:30:43","slug":"building-emotional-response-by-rethinking-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=4287","title":{"rendered":"Building Emotional Response by Rethinking Fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane over at GameGirl Advance is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamegirladvance.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/14\/when_will_games_disturb_us.html\">thinking about games as emotionally disturbing experiences<\/a>.  Her conclusion is that perhaps we need games that do not endeavor to be &#8220;fun&#8221; in the usual sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p><i>If games are to be taken as art, the next step has to be for some game developers to abandon the concept of &#8220;fun&#8221; &#8211; or at least, to rework it and to challenge it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>An interesting thought.  I am of the firm belief that video games cannot progress into the mainstream as a legitimate form of art until they can be emotionally relevant to players, but I hadn&#8217;t considered the idea that emotional relevancy might come at the expense of fun.  Perhaps that&#8217;s a trade off we should be willing to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane over at GameGirl Advance is thinking about games as emotionally disturbing experiences. Her conclusion is that perhaps we need games that do not endeavor to be &#8220;fun&#8221; in the usual sense of the word. If games are to be taken as art, the next step has to be for some game developers to abandon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}