{"id":426,"date":"2008-01-11T19:07:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=426"},"modified":"2008-01-11T19:17:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T18:17:01","slug":"asteroids-forgotten-futurism-defender-unnecessarily-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/01\/11\/asteroids-forgotten-futurism-defender-unnecessarily-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroids: Forgotten Futurism. Defender: Unnecessarily Hard."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share my two game reviews from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacetimeplay.org\/\">Space Time Play<\/a> anthology: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/text\/defender\/\">Defender<\/a><strong> <\/strong>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/text\/asteroids\/\">Asteroids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was two attempts at writing more theoretical and media-historical reviews where each game is considered from a specific angle. I.e. reviews with a little more reflection that your usual game review.<\/p>\n<p>I also experimented with using time lapse images to illustrate how the games change character from the beginning to the end of each level.<\/p>\n<p>To give away the conclusion, I think that <em>Asteroids <\/em>ultimately does not work, but that Defender is wonderful. Conversely, I think the <em>Asteroids<\/em> review is the most successful <em>review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Some quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/text\/defender\/\">Defender<\/a><strong>: &#8220;<\/strong>&#8230; <em>Defender<\/em> is an exaggerated version of the early 1980s arcade game in all its virtues: a large number of possible ways to fail, extremely unforgiving and no rewards beyond a high score and a few smart bombs. The purest arcade game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/text\/asteroids\/\">Asteroids<\/a><strong>: <\/strong> &#8220;&#8230; <em>Asteroids  <\/em>is a nostalgic game of the future, but the actual future has better games.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share my two game reviews from the Space Time Play anthology: Defender and Asteroids. This was two attempts at writing more theoretical and media-historical reviews where each game is considered from a specific angle. I.e. reviews with a little more reflection that your usual game review. I also experimented with using time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/01\/11\/asteroids-forgotten-futurism-defender-unnecessarily-hard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asteroids: Forgotten Futurism. Defender: Unnecessarily Hard.&#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-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}