{"id":504,"date":"2012-03-28T22:02:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2012-03-28T22:03:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:03:57","slug":"shades-of-amusement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/shades-of-amusement\/","title":{"rendered":"Shades of amusement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The multiplayer part of <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> is quite open-ended. I imagine it&#8217;ll be a little bit like improvisational theater or music. But with complete strangers. Who may or may not be very talented or inspired. So sometimes a session will go very deep and move both players. While other times, it&#8217;ll be dull and awkward.<\/p>\n<p>To me, this is all part of the experience. I don&#8217;t want to guide the play much. I like it when nobody knows how things are going to play out. And I think being aware if this, makes even the bad experiences interesting.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part and parcel of the interactive medium to me, that players make their own amusement to some extent. I just provide the instrument and the score. You should play the music.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, sometimes it will be odd. But that&#8217;s how conversations go. Sometimes they feel good, otherwise not so. And I hope the artificiality of the context will render even failed conversations moving. And perhaps contribute to our appreciation of our imperfect yet so wonderful species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multiplayer part of Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9 is quite open-ended. I imagine it&#8217;ll be a little bit like improvisational theater or music. But with complete strangers. Who may or may not be very talented or inspired. So sometimes a session will go very deep and move both players. While other times, it&#8217;ll be dull and awkward. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}