{"id":481,"date":"2012-03-25T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-03-25T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T21:12:08","slug":"talking-about-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/talking-about-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about making."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about what certain elements in the game may represent -like I did at the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/realtime-3d-is-the-medium\/\">the previous post<\/a>&#8211; feels uncomfortable. Usually I don&#8217;t ever think about this, let alone attempt to express it in words. Representations in our games are far more open-ended for me than my words may imply. It&#8217;s not like I have an idea and then try to express it. It&#8217;s probably more often the other way around: I&#8217;m struck by what an image, a sound, a gesture does to me and I keep it, and collect some and remove others until a sort of story appears that feels consistent.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that draws me to this medium as an artist, is exactly its capacity for multiple meanings, depending on who&#8217;s playing. I am curious how other people see the things I put in the game. I have no expectations.<\/p>\n<p>But I do realize that some people may have trouble making <em>any<\/em> sense at all of our work. In such cases of course it&#8217;s better if I give a few hints as to how <em>I<\/em> see it. Then at least they get <em>something<\/em> out of it -hopefully something they find interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Still I find it difficult. I&#8217;m so used to silently trusting my emotions that I really need to force myself to express in words how my work makes sense to me. And the words always sound so limited, so inadequate and far too definite.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not because I can&#8217;t express its meaning properly or that I might even say things that are completely wrong, that our work would be in any way obscure. All of our work is completely clear to me. In fact, it&#8217;s more clear than anything I could ever say in words. There is no room for the absurd or the weird: everything in our work makes perfect sense to me, more sense than anything anywhere. This is probably the main reason why I make this stuff: to try and make sense of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about what certain elements in the game may represent -like I did at the end of the previous post&#8211; feels uncomfortable. Usually I don&#8217;t ever think about this, let alone attempt to express it in words. Representations in our games are far more open-ended for me than my words may imply. It&#8217;s not like [&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-481","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\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}