{"id":8089,"date":"2011-07-07T01:26:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T07:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamdawn.com\/sh\/post_view.php?index=8089"},"modified":"2016-07-18T01:19:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T01:19:45","slug":"well-played-3-0-siren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=8089","title":{"rendered":"Well Played 3.0: Siren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etc.cmu.edu\/etcpress\/wellplayed\">Well Played<\/a> before.  It&#8217;s CMU&#8217;s series of books on game design, authored by a wide range of critics, journalists, and armchair game anthropologists like myself.  The third book in the series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etc.cmu.edu\/etcpress\/content\/well-played-30-video-games-value-and-meaning\">Well Played 3.0<\/a>, is now out, and I&#8217;m happy to report that it contains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etc.cmu.edu\/etcpress\/content\/siren-chris-pruett\">an article I wrote about Siren<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s a snippet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Described this way, as just the sum of its various parts, Siren sounds like a pretty good horror game.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not a pretty good horror game; it&#8217;s not even a great horror game. It&#8217;s the Scariest Video Game Ever Made. And to understand why it is the Scariest Game Ever Made, we need to look at how Siren works at a much more fundamental level.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etc.cmu.edu\/etcpress\/content\/siren-chris-pruett\">whole article online<\/a> if you want.  I reread it for the first time in almost a year this evening and I was sort of surprised to find that I open the piece with a little history of this site.  And yes, one year later,<\/p>\n<p><a href = \"?p=3600000\">Siren<\/a> is still the scariest game I&#8217;ve played.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of good stuff in this edition of Well Played.  You might also be interested in articles about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etc.cmu.edu\/etcpress\/content\/path-heather-chaplin\">The Path<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/press.etc.cmu.edu\/content\/heavy-rain-jos\u00e9-p-zagal\">Heavy Rain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have heard of Well Played before. It&#8217;s CMU&#8217;s series of books on game design, authored by a wide range of critics, journalists, and armchair game anthropologists like myself. The third book in the series, Well Played 3.0, is now out, and I&#8217;m happy to report that it contains an article I wrote about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-games","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089","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=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14800133,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions\/14800133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}