{"id":72,"date":"2006-06-07T01:44:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=72"},"modified":"2006-06-08T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T10:31:25","slug":"there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"There"},"content":{"rendered":"

There<\/a> is an interesting multiplayer environment. It’s very focussed on chat and since all characters are humans, that can be a bit strange. Especially given that they all look so cute. Same style, same age, etc. It’s as if the designers are trying to create some “Love Boat dynamics” (and indeed, the first thing that happened to me was that a girl took me to a secret pool and immediately wanted to kiss me -I mean I did look incredibly cute, but still… \ud83d\ude09 ).<\/p>\n

\"There\"<\/p>\n

Anyway. What is interesting in this game is that you don’t have complete control over your avatar. Especially in social situations. All avatars respond to each other autonomously. When you walk past someone, their avatar will look at yours. The player doesn’t need to give it a command to do so. It’s autonomous behaviour. When you try to participate in a group, the avatars move out of the way, to make some room for yours.
\nAnd then there is the special conversation mode which connects the avatars together in a group activity. The camera changes to show the whole group and the avatars look at each other. Once in a while, they will nod simultaneously to each other, again without user intervention. It’s as if the avatars form their own community.
\nThis automated body language works really well to create a feeling of social harmony. Willy-nilly you believe the avatar on the other side, and its automatic behaviour subconsciously puts you in a friendly mood towards the player represented by it. Very powerful stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is an interesting multiplayer environment. It’s very focussed on chat and since all characters are humans, that can be a bit strange. Especially given that they all look so cute. Same style, same age, etc. It’s as if the designers are trying to create some “Love Boat dynamics” (and indeed, the first thing that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}