{"id":771,"date":"2012-04-20T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2012-04-20T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:46:08","slug":"unexpected-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/unexpected-awe\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected awe."},"content":{"rendered":"

Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> is intended to be understated, silent, introverted. A quiet game that waits for you. With characters who only speak to form lines to read between. A far cry from any emotional rollercoasting. A complex game, yet simple -barren even.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I’m not interested as a designer in spectacle, in wonder, in awe. One day I definitely want to tackle that challenge. But not this time. Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> is dry like a good white wine.<\/p>\n

And yet, when I walk towards the borders of the holodeck, where the sky opens up to reveal space, full of stars, I stop in my steps and stare. I was already a bit dizzy from looking at the sea, but confronted with a universe that seems to swirl around me due to the continuous rotation of the space station I am on, I can barely keep my balance. Proverbial jaw on the floor, I am moved to my core by the immensity of it all.<\/p>\n

Marguerite Duras, whose novels inspired this game, has nothing whatsoever to do with space fantasies or even emotional spectacle. I’m not sure how I got here, but it makes sense on some level. I think this space element crept in in the aftermath of our Cncntrc prototype<\/a> which, in part, dealt with cosmology. And peering at the planets through our latest geek acquisition, an Celestron AstroMaster reflector telescope, certainly contributed as well.<\/p>\n

It’s one of those things that comes out of the marble as you keep hacking at it. It was apparently always there. I just didn’t know. And to think how difficult it would have been to try and achieve this effect on purpose!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9 is intended to be understated, silent, introverted. A quiet game that waits for you. With characters who only speak to form lines to read between. A far cry from any emotional rollercoasting. A complex game, yet simple -barren even. It’s not that I’m not interested as a designer in spectacle, in wonder, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}