{"id":2573,"date":"2012-11-21T15:57:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T23:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2017-03-17T18:09:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T01:09:33","slug":"ifcomp-2012-the-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/2573","title":{"rendered":"IFComp 2012: The Lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spoilers follow the break.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You know, I remember playing games like this written in TRS-80 BASIC. Games blatantly written by middle-school kids. Games that lock you in a set of death-corridors with no explanation and terse descriptions. Games where your only interaction consists of picking actions from a list, where you basically just have to make blind guesses about which ones will help and which ones will get you immediately killed. And on top of that, it&#8217;s disappointingly short. (&#8220;The food is terrible &#8212; and such small portions!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been posting my ratings for the individual games this year, but this is the sort of work that makes me glad I keep the 1 in reserve, rating most of the merely bad games 2 or higher, so I have something to apply to the ones that manage to be significantly worse than everything else seen so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoilers follow the break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[84,53,548],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-if","tag-if","tag-ifcomp","tag-ifcomp-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}