{"id":1265,"date":"2006-07-12T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"Jare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Episodic content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=10046\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Rein&#8217;s dismissal<\/a> of episodic content as a &quot;broken model&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>He mentions marketability, user interest, price and other things that have come up in this thread. Can&#8217;t wait for the full writeup. Although I can&#8217;t avoid a certain level of agreement with him, it does seem to me that he&#8217;s talking as if the whole distribution and publishing model is not going to change at all.<\/p>\n<p>+ Yes, in the current retail, console manufacturer-controled, extremely competitive market, boxed episodic content can&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; No, the market is evolving and changing (thanks in no small part to downloadables), and the future will likely be more friendly to episodic content, making it a viable model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rein&#8217;s dismissal of episodic content as a &quot;broken model&quot;. He mentions marketability, user interest, price and other things that have come up in this thread. Can&#8217;t wait for the full writeup. Although I can&#8217;t avoid a certain level of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}