{"id":1046,"date":"2012-05-14T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2012-05-15T08:12:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T06:12:40","slug":"doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/doubts\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just submitted a work in progress build of <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> to <a href=\"http:\/\/indiecade.com\">IndieCade<\/a>. The festival takes place around the release date of the game. So a selection would be nice promotion. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p>But having played some <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> yesterday -admittedly only for testing and making screengrabs- my heart is now filled with doubt. Why do I always have to make these weird things? Next time I really should just make something that I know people will just like. Doesn&#8217;t have to be candy coated rubbish. Just something that pulls some strings that I know people who play videogames have.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m getting too old to still be amused by the barrage of WTFs every time we release a game. Or, maybe things have really changed in games now! But I have a feeling that instead of enjoying the current goodwill towards non-gamey games, <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> takes things yet another few steps further. Into no man&#8217;s land.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s of course entirely possible that <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> is no good. Not just too experimental or too strange, but simply not entertaining, not beautiful, not meaningful. Maybe I suck as an artist. Or I had a bad day when I thought up this game.<\/p>\n<p><em>Or maybe I haven&#8217;t had enough sleep lately and I just need hugs.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just submitted a work in progress build of Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9 to IndieCade. The festival takes place around the release date of the game. So a selection would be nice promotion. Fingers crossed. But having played some Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9 yesterday -admittedly only for testing and making screengrabs- my heart is now filled with doubt. Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}