{"id":978,"date":"2003-05-02T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2003-05-02T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2003-05-02T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2003-05-02T13:58:07","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2003\/05\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Perverse Access Memory: WISH 28: Movies for Gamers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whiterose.org\/pam\/archives\/001772.html\">WISH 28: Movies for Gamers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What are three movies that have inspired you as a gamer? Would you recommend them to other gamers, and if so, what would you tell them to look for and\/or hope for them to get?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<i><u>Dark City<\/u><\/i> &#8211; Arriving on the scene more than a year before the Matrix, this movie left an indelible imprint on my <i>Things in Heaven and Earth<\/i> game that I think it&#8217;s unlikely any movie will repeat.  If you took <i>Dark City<\/i> and <i>Sandman<\/i> influences out of TiHE you&#8217;d pretty just be left with the funny quotes.<br \/>\n<u><i>Tremors<\/i><\/u>: Everyone can go list &#8220;Alien&#8221; or &#8220;Aliens&#8221; as their favorite &#8220;things trying to eat us&#8221; movie (And I love em too), but while those might be great movies, <i>Tremors<\/i> is how Aliens comes out when it&#8217;s fed into a group of Players.  The repeated sight and prop gags, the soundtrack, the sense that the actors were having SO MUCH FUN in each scene&#8230; I just hope my games are half that fun.  It&#8217;s a reminder that you can&#8217;t always be serious (not that my groups usually could be if they tried) &#8212; Gods laugh, too.<br \/>\n<i><u>Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight<\/u><\/i>: I will always love this move. The premise formed the basis of my first Amber game (sort of.  There&#8217;s always a sort of.)  I loved the alternate history, the b-movie acting, the summoning of zombie-demons by spilling blood on the ground.<br \/>\nAnd Billy Zane&#8230; he&#8217;s dreamy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WISH 28: Movies for Gamers What are three movies that have inspired you as a gamer? Would you recommend them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}