{"id":134,"date":"2010-02-21T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:52:14","slug":"gaming-anti-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2010\/02\/gaming-anti-frustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming Anti-Frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/thumb_100x100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-135\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Time Goes By\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/thumb_100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>As is occasionally the case, it can take a Flash game to\u00a0 shake you out of a feeling of vague frustration when it comes to games.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/DAVIDH%7E1\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/DAVIDH%7E1\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>May I refer you to\u00a0 a game called <a title=\"Time Goes By - Red Tower Games\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redtowergames.com\/play\/mochi-time-goes-by\">Time Goes By<\/a> (Via Red Tower Games) which is strangely beautiful, the first stage in particular.<\/p>\n<p>There are undeniably a couple of little frustrations with the game, but for the most part it has a wonderful feel to it that lifted me up ever so slightly.<\/p>\n<p>There is often a question that gets bandied about various sites as to whether games can ever classify as art (Or as I have genuinely seen the question raised once &#8220;Is gamez art?&#8221;) and for the most part, we are stuffed into a general &#8220;not really&#8221; answer, but things like Time Goes By here are the sort of thing that raises the answer closer to a &#8220;sometimes they can&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is occasionally the case, it can take a Flash game to\u00a0 shake you out of a feeling of vague frustration when it comes to games.\u00a0 May I refer you to\u00a0 a game called Time Goes By (Via Red Tower Games) which is strangely beautiful, the first stage in particular. 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