{"id":472,"date":"2008-08-10T22:52:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T02:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=472"},"modified":"2011-03-16T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T10:22:11","slug":"indie-games-like-braid-are-punk-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/08\/10\/indie-games-like-braid-are-punk-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Games (like Braid) are Punk Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to rock lore, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lydon\">John Lydon aka Jonny Rotten<\/a> of the Sex Pistols once wore an <em>I Hate Pink Floyd<\/em> t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-473\" title=\"t-shirt-ihatepinkffloyd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/t-shirt-ihatepinkffloyd.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Rotten\\'s I Hate Pink Floyd t-shirt\" width=\"262\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The standard interpretation is that the world at the time was full of symphonic (aka progressive) rock bands, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, doing massive concerts and overly pretentious, long and elaborate songs &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and so the stage was set for Punk music, the songs of which were short, had low production cost, and which wrestled music from the claws of big corporations.<\/p>\n<p>And this is my small <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article_print\/SB121814539048522033.html\">comment on <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article_print\/SB121814539048522033.html\">B<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article_print\/SB121814539048522033.html\">raid in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>: Indie video games are like punk rock, short, low production costs, wrestling our art from the claws of big corporations.<\/p>\n<p>And we really should be wearing &#8220;I hate World of Warcraft&#8221; t-shirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to rock lore, John Lydon aka Jonny Rotten of the Sex Pistols once wore an I Hate Pink Floyd t-shirt. The standard interpretation is that the world at the time was full of symphonic (aka progressive) rock bands, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, doing massive concerts and overly pretentious, long and elaborate songs &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/08\/10\/indie-games-like-braid-are-punk-rock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Indie Games (like Braid) are Punk Rock&#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-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}