{"id":1065,"date":"2015-03-02T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2015-03-02T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T22:25:09","slug":"tlf-memory-lane-a-review-of-gone-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2015\/03\/02\/tlf-memory-lane-a-review-of-gone-home\/","title":{"rendered":"TLF – Memory Lane: A Review of Gone Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I finally got around to playing Gone Home<\/em>, mostly because I put it on my syllabus to force myself to play it (in that “I keep meaning to but just don’t” kind of way – not the “oh god don’t make me” kind of way). My review of it is up on TLF<\/a>, and it’s mixed.<\/p>\n

My students’ reaction was also a bit mixed. Some of them got very immersed in the atmosphere, so much so that I had a few afraid to finish it in the wee hours of the morning because it made them feel like something was going to jump out and get them. I had others who were just confused, since they didn’t really feel like they were actually playing<\/strong> anything. And others who were bored, wanting something interesting to happen or wanting some kind of specific choice to make that would matter in the long run.<\/p>\n

But it keeps coming up in class. Today we started Portal<\/em>, and they immediately compared the narrative and exploration mechanics in Gone Home<\/em> to the (lack of obvious) narrative in the first 10 rooms of P<\/em>ortal – although we’ll see how that comparison continues as the game develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I finally got around to playing Gone Home, mostly because I put it on my syllabus to force myself to play it (in that “I keep meaning to but just don’t” kind of way – not the “oh god … Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9130,9154,9147,9136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-criticism","category-social-justice","category-tlf","category-videogames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XN03-hb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}