{"id":342,"date":"2007-05-30T08:51:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T07:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=342"},"modified":"2007-05-30T08:51:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T07:51:35","slug":"following-ultima-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/05\/30\/following-ultima-through-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Ultima through the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, I am quite fascinated with the idea of studying the development of a genre, game type, or game series over the years. It just hasn&#8217;t been done much (seems we have mostly been doing the very big picture or general musings on a single game), and the payoff from studying details is often surprisingly high. (<em>To see the world in a grain of sand<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2007\/05\/blogging_ultima_step_by_step.php\">GameSetWatch<\/a>, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggingultima.blogspot.com\/\">Blogging Ultima<\/a>, where CageBlogger has been playing his way through the Ultima series since February.<\/p>\n<p>From the introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welcome to what will presumably be a long-running Ultima blog. The purpose is to blog the experience of playing the now-defunct Ultima series by Origin Systems (plus a few other names here and there) from beginning to end. I will be including all the non-remake spin-offs that I am aware of, under the theory of &#8220;If I&#8217;m gonna do it, might as well go all the way.&#8221; I am not blogging as if I am a character in the game, or giving reviews. I&#8217;m going to write about the process of playing, the annoying things, the fun things, and the assorted mental musings that arise from any long-term activity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Details are good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, I am quite fascinated with the idea of studying the development of a genre, game type, or game series over the years. It just hasn&#8217;t been done much (seems we have mostly been doing the very big picture or general musings on a single game), and the payoff from studying details is often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/05\/30\/following-ultima-through-the-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Following Ultima through the Years&#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-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}