{"id":2526,"date":"2018-06-04T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T22:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2018-06-04T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T22:48:16","slug":"raph-koster-has-a-new-book-out-you-probably-shouldnt-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/2526\/","title":{"rendered":"Raph Koster has a new book out you probably shouldn&#8217;t read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Raph on twitter means I already knew this was coming, but I had no reason to say anything about it until I saw this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Combat in SWG never really clicked, IMHO. Today&#39;s little excerpt from my new book POSTMORTEMS is from a section where I talk about reasons why. The book covers 30 yrs of online worlds, with tons of design info on SWG, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UltimaOnline?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UltimaOnline<\/a>, and lots more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xa92c86Fqn\">https:\/\/t.co\/xa92c86Fqn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oqS4FnXOLx\">pic.twitter.com\/oqS4FnXOLx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Raph Koster (@raphkoster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/raphkoster\/status\/1003687072404725760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is my corner of the internet and I can say what I want without consequences, negative or positive.<\/p>\n<p>Look at that.<\/p>\n<p><i>Science fiction adds a particular challenge to combat design. I spent quite a while reading up on military tactics<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For Star Wars Galaxies? That great game with exceptional ranged combat design?<\/p>\n<p>You mean the one where you deliberately didn&#8217;t model terrain collision so that you could shoot and being shot through entire hills?<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, you definitely have to be a military expert to know that ground cover and terrain in general should matter in ranged combat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Raph continues to be one of the most brilliant minds and at the same time completely inept at &#8220;getting&#8221; game design. I&#8217;m sure this book is just a further proof of that. And one of the things he does the worst is figuring out what he did wrong, &#8220;postmortem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That excerpt cannot make it more obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Raph on twitter means I already knew this was coming, but I had no reason to say anything about it until I saw this: Combat in SWG never really clicked, IMHO. Today&#39;s little excerpt from my new book POSTMORTEMS is from a section where I talk about reasons why. The book covers 30 yrs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}