{"id":405,"date":"2004-12-07T10:44:53","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T17:44:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-08T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T23:02:53","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/405\/","title":{"rendered":"Raph Koster keeps going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just read the &#8220;tease&#8221; he wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.f13.net\/index.php?topic=1647.msg42670#msg42670\">on F13<\/a> and cannot avoid to notice that he keeps moving on repeating the same mistakes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>Raph Koster<\/b>:<br \/>\nI do have an R&#038;D group in which we do Cool Stuff &#8482; that I can&#8217;t tell you about.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I&#8217;m being a tease. It&#8217;s cool stuff though.)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re trying to focus on stuff that is cool immediately and obviously. A big part of why I wrote the book was because of wanting to get back to basics and focus on fun. So far what we have is cool and fun in a sort of shallow way, but you can see how it can be fun in deeper ways. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s R&#038;D though, it&#8217;ll take some iterating to get there.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again trying to design starting from the raw theories, again putting the mind ahead of the body.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t work, it doesn&#8217;t work and it won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway: good luck. In the meantime I&#8217;ve ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1932111972\/103-9391796-7910240?v=glance\">his book<\/a> (finally out) from Amazon. It should arrive before Christmas.<br \/>\n(I also should remember where he is &#8211; Raph, not his book &#8211; and where I am, before opening my mouth and pontificate)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just read the &#8220;tease&#8221; he wrote on F13 and cannot avoid to notice that he keeps moving on repeating the same mistakes: Raph Koster: I do have an R&#038;D group in which we do Cool Stuff &#8482; that I can&#8217;t tell you about. (Yes, I&#8217;m being a tease. It&#8217;s cool stuff though.) We&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}