{"id":1,"date":"2015-01-20T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-01-24T01:07:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T01:07:28","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GREETING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello everyone! We are team Fear &amp; Freedom, consisting of 4 graduate students at the Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Entertainment Technology Center. We are making a transformational game about North Korean human rights for the next 14 weeks. We will send a weekly email to update you on our progress. These newsletters will include our game\u2019s development, goals and struggles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRIEFING<\/strong><br \/>\nThe game is about North Koreans struggling under their oppressive government. This week, we focused on making sure our game didn\u2019t feel too \u201cpreachy\u201d. Our emphasis will be on the daily lives of North Koreans, unlike documentaries that focus on the propaganda of the North Korean Government. We want to present North Koreans as strong independent individuals who are hindered by their government. We believe that letting players feel \u201cadmiration\u201d rather than \u201csympathy\u201d reduces the preachiness of the game.<br \/>\nWe joined a workshop at ETC to \u201cplaytest\u201d our concept with 50+ students. It was interesting that most people believed that our game should be less than 15 minutes, while we initially wanted an hour long game. It was also interesting that there was a lot of praise for Papers Please. That was encouraging since Papers Please was a prime reference for what we believed to be a successful transformational game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLOSING<\/strong><br \/>\nWe are all very excited and feel attached to this project since we pitched it. Our goal next week is to make a playable prototype with low fidelity for first 5 minutes of the experience to test our fundamentals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">GREETING Hello everyone! We are team Fear &amp; Freedom, consisting of 4 graduate students at the Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Entertainment Technology Center. We are making a transformational game about North Korean human rights for the next 14 weeks. We will send a weekly email to update you on our progress. These newsletters will include our game\u2019s development, goals and struggles.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/?p=1\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fear-and-freedom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}