{"id":254,"date":"2006-04-12T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=254"},"modified":"2006-04-12T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T10:02:22","slug":"episodic-content-almost-here-half-life-2-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/04\/12\/episodic-content-almost-here-half-life-2-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Episodic Content almost Here: Half-life 2, Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With digital distribution actually happening, including <a href=\"http:\/\/steampowered.com\/\">Steam <\/a>and Greg Costikyan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manifestogames.com\/\">Manifesto Games<\/a>, as well as the casual games downloadable market, one of the imagined futures of the games industry seems to have become quite real.<br \/>\nAnother thing that has been discussed incessantly is episodic content, so behold the <a href=\"http:\/\/ep1.half-life2.com\/media.php\">trailer for Half-Life 2, episode one<\/a> &#8211; each episode apparently priced at $19.95, which I find reasonable enough.<br \/>\nOn a tangent, I think it was Gabe Newell who at the GDC talked about how much better the quality of life as a developer was making episodic content. (Couldn&#8217;t it be due to do with other factors than the episodicness itself?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With digital distribution actually happening, including Steam and Greg Costikyan&#8217;s Manifesto Games, as well as the casual games downloadable market, one of the imagined futures of the games industry seems to have become quite real. Another thing that has been discussed incessantly is episodic content, so behold the trailer for Half-Life 2, episode one &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/04\/12\/episodic-content-almost-here-half-life-2-episode-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episodic Content almost Here: Half-life 2, Episode 1&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}