{"id":1510,"date":"2012-05-03T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:07:03","slug":"why-is-this-so-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2012\/05\/03\/why-is-this-so-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY THE %&#038;*# IS THIS SO %&#038;#ING IMPOSSIBLE??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday May 4th I will be a panelist at <a href=\"http:\/\/roflcon.org\">ROLFCon<\/a> in Cambridge, with distinguished co-panelists <a href=\"http:\/\/killscreendaily.com\/archive\/author\/jamin-warren\/\">Jamin Warren<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foddy.net\/\">Bennett Foddy<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kayin.pyoko.org\/\">Michael \u201cKayin\u201d O\u2019Reilly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gaming: WHY THE %&amp;*# IS THIS SO %&amp;#ING IMPOSSIBLE??<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Panelists:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Bennett Foddy (QWOP \/ GIRP), Michael \u201cKayin\u201d O\u2019Reilly (I Wanna Be The Guy), Jesper Juul (NYU Game Center), Jamin Warren (mod \u2013 Kill Screen)<\/p>\n<p><em>We all know what it\u2019s like to be deliciously close to victory, only to have it snatched out of our hands by that %&amp;*#ing obstacle that has stopped you for the 30th time\u2026tonight. So why do we keep playing games that torture us? And who are the %*(@&amp;ers $&amp;@*ed up enough to make these games?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The creators of some of the most brilliant yet frustrating games of all time are joining us for this panel to talk about the love\/hate relationship you have with their games and why they chose to make it that way. Please don\u2019t throw your controllers at them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday May 4th I will be a panelist at ROLFCon in Cambridge, with distinguished co-panelists Jamin Warren, Bennett Foddy and\u00a0Michael \u201cKayin\u201d O\u2019Reilly. Gaming: WHY THE %&amp;*# IS THIS SO %&amp;#ING IMPOSSIBLE?? Panelists:\u00a0Bennett Foddy (QWOP \/ GIRP), Michael \u201cKayin\u201d O\u2019Reilly (I Wanna Be The Guy), Jesper Juul (NYU Game Center), Jamin Warren (mod \u2013 Kill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2012\/05\/03\/why-is-this-so-impossible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WHY THE %&#038;*# IS THIS SO %&#038;#ING IMPOSSIBLE??&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}