{"id":173,"date":"2009-12-26T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=173"},"modified":"2009-12-26T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T19:18:09","slug":"just-my-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/just-my-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Just my imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently watching one of James May&#8217;s excellent television <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesmaystoystories.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">programmes<\/a> about childhood toys. in which he reminisces and\/or uses them to build something incredible and very cool, when he said something that got me thinking. I can&#8217;t remember his exact words but it was something along the lines of modern computer games being boring because they leave nothing to the imagination.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking recently about the importance of graphical quality in games, and this struck a chord with some of my own ideas about the increasing fidelity of high-end gaming. As the gaming experience becomes ever more realistic it becomes ever more immersive&#8230; or does it? I remember being immersed in games of far lesser graphical wonder, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hobbit_%281982_video_game%29\">The Hobbit<\/a> with its shaky line drawings, and the brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Secret_of_Monkey_Island\" target=\"_blank\">Secret of Monkey Island<\/a> with its 2d pixelmen. Or even a good book.<\/p>\n<p>I think that May has got it right. By striving for increasing accuracy and definition in games we may be losing some of the essential &#8216;gameness&#8217; of them &#8211; the mystery, storytelling, creativity and imagination that goes on in our own heads as we play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently watching one of James May&#8217;s excellent television programmes about childhood toys. in which he reminisces and\/or uses them to build something incredible and very cool, when he said something that got me thinking. I can&#8217;t remember his&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/just-my-imagination\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-graphics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-2N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}