{"id":2965,"date":"2015-03-08T19:07:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2015-03-08T19:09:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:09:53","slug":"hadean-lands-stack-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/2965","title":{"rendered":"Hadean Lands: Stack Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I<\/a>I’ve received the last of my Kickstarter rewards for Hadean Lands<\/em>: a copy of the game on CD-ROM, which Zarf accurately identifies as more a memento than a medium, a token of a game you’ve probably already downloaded and finished by the time the discs were mailed out. Nonetheless, it is a game on a physical medium, and that creates some problems for the Oath<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Oath in its current form was written on the assumption that if I acquire any games on physical media, it’s because I haven’t played them yet. Taking the terms of the Oath strictly, I now have a CD that I duly played and blogged from start to finish while the Oath was active, but which went directly into the Trophy Case without passing through the Stack. This isn’t how I intended things to work. So I’m going to change the phrasing of the Oath slightly to recognize anomalous cases like this, and claim my self-granted reward for the posts I’ve already written.<\/p>\n

There’s one other iffy matter, though. Hadean Lands<\/em> isn’t actually the only game on the disc. It also contains a folder with 20 other games by Zarf — 19 previously released works plus one incomplete prototype. I played most of them to completion back when they were first released, but do the ones I haven’t completed count as on the Stack now? Even the ones I’ve completed are arguably in the same position as Hadean Lands<\/em> itself. Ah, but there is in fact precedent for bonus text adventures on this blog. When I played the bonus text adventure included with Icebreaker<\/em><\/a>, I didn’t count it as a separate game on the Stack, even though I did post about it. That very game is on the HL<\/em> CD as well, and it would be strange to suddenly declare that it counts here but not there. And if it doesn’t, none of them do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve received the last of my Kickstarter rewards for Hadean Lands: a copy of the game on CD-ROM, which Zarf accurately identifies as more a memento than a medium, a token of a game you’ve probably already downloaded and finished by the time the discs were mailed out. Nonetheless, it is a game on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,69],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-plotkin","tag-hadean-lands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","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=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}