{"id":33,"date":"2007-02-18T21:47:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T21:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decisionproblem.com\/seminar\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-09-04T05:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T05:57:00","slug":"the-game-that-needs-no-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"The Game That Needs No Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is inspired by some thoughts I had in response to Charley&#8217;s post about cut-scenes and &#8216;non-game&#8217; moments. It occured to me that I could not think of one videogame that had no introduction of any kind. In other words, no starting tutorial or beginning cinematic, not even a start screen. Can anyone think of a video game that begins <em>in media res<\/em>? A game that you install, or load into the disc drive, or shove in the cart, and it just starts without any warning whatsoever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is inspired by some thoughts I had in response to Charley&#8217;s post about cut-scenes and &#8216;non-game&#8217; moments. It occured to me that I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/33"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedesignadvance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}