{"id":1293,"date":"2012-05-31T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2012-05-31T23:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:12:47","slug":"new-shades-of-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/new-shades-of-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"New shades of doubt."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have so much doubts about <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> that it&#8217;s funny. It&#8217;s so bad that I just want to finish it, publish it, walk away from it and start working on a new project.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the problem with these long productions. You have so much time to think about many things. And the world doesn&#8217;t stop either. The world in which we invented <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> does not exist any more. It&#8217;s already an anachronism.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier I was plagued by doubt about the strangeness of this project. And I was kicking myself asking why I couldn&#8217;t make something nice and normal for a change. Now I&#8217;m leaning towards the other side. Maybe <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9 <\/em>still contains too many conventions, maybe it tries too hard to be liked, maybe I didn&#8217;t take things far enough.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of notgames has definitely added clarity to my thinking about design. But it&#8217;s not easy! It&#8217;s not easy to ditch a decades old tradition -that was itself based on a centuries old tradition- in favor of something new, a new use that fits this new medium better. I guess it&#8217;s only normal that this is a slow process that involves a lot of failure. And I&#8217;m so happy that we&#8217;re not doing this alone.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, the new doubt expressed above is ultimately a positive doubt. Finally a context is beginning to appear in which we actually have some competition. Several developers are doing things along similar notgames lines. And it&#8217;s actually refreshing to have to wonder if our work will hold up next to theirs. Will it be good enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have so much doubts about Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9 that it&#8217;s funny. It&#8217;s so bad that I just want to finish it, publish it, walk away from it and start working on a new project. That&#8217;s the problem with these long productions. You have so much time to think about many things. And the world doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","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=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}