{"id":4423,"date":"2006-10-19T21:15:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T03:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamdawn.com\/sh\/post_view.php?index=4423"},"modified":"2006-10-19T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T03:15:06","slug":"article-fraidy-cat-gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=4423","title":{"rendered":"Article: Fraidy Cat Gamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I followed a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\">Slashdot Games<\/a> to this interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerswithjobs.com\/node\/27868\">post about the difference between horror games and horror movies<\/a> over at the hilariously titled GamersWithJobs.com.  The author admits to being absolutely terrified by horror games despite having no trouble with horror movies.  The point he makes, which is a big part of the reason I am running this site, is that the level of emotional involvement that a video game can produce can be much higher than passive media like film.  Playing the roll of the main character means that we are unable to use common cliches as a defense against fear.  I think that this type of involvement is possible for other types of games as well, but the horror game genre seem to be where the best of the best currently reside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I followed a link from Slashdot Games to this interesting post about the difference between horror games and horror movies over at the hilariously titled GamersWithJobs.com. The author admits to being absolutely terrified by horror games despite having no trouble with horror movies. The point he makes, which is a big part of the reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-games","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}