{"id":807,"date":"2014-03-19T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T18:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/?p=807"},"modified":"2014-04-10T20:19:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T18:19:53","slug":"hands-on-miegakure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/2014\/03\/hands-on-miegakure\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands On: Miegakure"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Miegakure is a 4-dimensional puzzle game. What this means is that I am going to struggle to convey exactly what playing it entails. That\u2019s not to say that the game\u2019s designer, Marc Ten Bosch, has made something alienating or overly intellectual. It\u2019s a warm, funny, deeply intelligent game, which I was pleased to have the opportunity play on the periphery of this year\u2019s GDC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"float:right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2014\/03\/18\/miegakure-preview\/\" title=\"Hands On: Miegakure by Jim Rossignol (Rock Paper Shotgun)\">Jim Rossignol (Rock Paper Shotgun)<\/a><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Miegakure is special in that <a href=\"http:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/2013\/03\/showing-at-the-experimental-gameplay-workshop-progress-report\/\" title=\"Showing Miegakure at the Experimental Gameplay Workshop + Progress Report\">by improving the graphics, the gameplay also improves a lot<\/a>. So as I keep improving the way the fourth dimension is represented graphically, making it more and more correct, the game gradually becomes more and more expressive of its mechanics. \n\nThis is in contrast to many games where crude \"programmer\" art can represent the game well enough, conveying most of what the game feels like to play. Replacing the graphics later on with better art will certainly improve the feel of the game in a deep way, but a lot of what the game is can be expressed right at the beginning with simple graphics.\n\nSo with that in mind, I haven't done press in a few years, knowing that the experience would not match the final product very well. But we are now at the point where the game feels solid, and most of the graphical tech is in the game. --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2014\/03\/18\/miegakure-preview\/\" title=\"Hands On: Miegakure by Jim Rossignol (Rock Paper Shotgun)\">Hands On of Miegakure by Jim Rossignol<\/a> (from Rock Paper Shotgun)<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miegakure is a 4-dimensional puzzle game. What this means is that I am going to struggle to convey exactly what playing it entails. That\u2019s not to say that the game\u2019s designer, Marc Ten Bosch, has made something alienating or overly intellectual. It\u2019s a warm, funny, deeply intelligent game, which I was pleased to have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miegakure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marctenbosch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}