{"id":582,"date":"2012-04-02T21:23:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2012-04-02T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:23:37","slug":"stop-playing-before-you-get-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/stop-playing-before-you-get-bored\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop playing before you get bored."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In principle <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> is endless. It consists of two areas (single player and multiplayer, beach and caf\u00e9) that can alternate indefinitely. Since a lot is left to chance (especially in the multiplayer part), I want people to play more than once, to get different versions as it were.<\/p>\n<p>Since I am counting on repeat play, I&#8217;m using the outside-inside cycle to introduce new elements. Every time you leave the caf\u00e9, something will have changed on the beach. I&#8217;m thinking of having these elements appear in a certain order, linearly, back and forth (like the tides of the sea). There&#8217;s only a small amount of elements, though, so after 4 or 5 cycles you may have seen everything (except for the randomly distributed phrases and objects that can be collected of which there are many).<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean you could no longer enjoy the game. <em>Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> is not an exploration game. A lot of variation is introduced through the multiplayer aspect. But it also offers a certain mood, that you might simply want to return too.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the cycle is endless, it&#8217;s perfectly possible for people to continue playing forever. And I worry that they may continue playing until they get bored. And when they got bored, they might look back at the <em>entire<\/em> experience as a waste of time, even though they were enjoying it <em>before<\/em> they got bored.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe I should add a way to encourage people to <em>stop<\/em> playing, to stop playing before they get bored, i.e. when the game is still fun for them. Perhaps I could add a notification that tells them that they have seen everything there is to see. And then they can still continue playing, but as a warned man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In principle Bient\u00f4t l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9 is endless. It consists of two areas (single player and multiplayer, beach and caf\u00e9) that can alternate indefinitely. Since a lot is left to chance (especially in the multiplayer part), I want people to play more than once, to get different versions as it were. Since I am counting on repeat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}