{"id":168,"date":"2007-10-29T18:43:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decisionproblem.com\/seminar\/?p=168"},"modified":"2008-09-04T05:51:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T05:51:10","slug":"on-rosebuds-of-the-interactive-sort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"On Rosebuds of the Interactive Sort&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I just finished playing <em>Portal<\/em>. And I&#8217;m probably the least video game literate of those who post on this site, so what I&#8217;m about to say blooms from an ignorant soil&#8230; but is <em>Portal<\/em> the <em>Citizen Kane<\/em> we&#8217;ve been waiting for of the video game medium?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The mechanics of <em>Portal<\/em> are great and was the aspect of the game that got the early press, probably because the early press hadn&#8217;t played the game all the way through. Now that critics have, they are saying a lot of great things about the narrative. And I have to agree: <em>Portal<\/em> was an awesome narrative experience. And a step in the right direction for those of us who want to see video games evolve as an expressive medium capable of rich narrative &#8212; and best of all, Portal did things film cannot &#8212; and the only cut scene comes at the very end.<\/p>\n<p>So when I compare <em>Portal<\/em> to <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>, I don&#8217;t mean to compare the two by the value of their narratives. I compare them by how they advance their medium by doing things that hadn&#8217;t been done. And in that sense, then I think Portal will stand as the <em>Citizen Kane<\/em> of video games and be remembered for a very long time as one of the most important early works of the movement. Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just finished playing Portal. And I&#8217;m probably the least video game literate of those who post on this site, so what I&#8217;m about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}