{"id":39089,"date":"2020-06-07T05:19:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=39089"},"modified":"2020-06-07T05:19:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:19:30","slug":"old-gods-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/06\/07\/old-gods-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Gods Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just released, an interesting labour-of-love videogame from a former BioWare developer. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1084990\/Old_Gods_Rising\/\">Old Gods Rising<\/a><\/em> is a single-player Windows game&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Old Gods Rising<\/em> is a first-person adventure mystery. Duvall describes it as \u201cwhat would have happened if H.P. Lovecraft had been running the <em>Firewatch<\/em> team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/old-gods-rising.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/old-gods-rising.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39091\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In which you wander around an eerily deserted university campus and grounds. As you do, these days. I&#8217;ve no idea what <em>Firewatch<\/em> is but <em>Old Gods<\/em> sounds like it&#8217;s in the mould of the British game of a few years ago called <em>Everyone&#8217;s Gone to the Rapture<\/em>, but here with a scholarly and Lovecraftian layer.  <em>Old Gods<\/em> is said to take about four hours for hardened three-games-a-week puzzler gamers, or perhaps three evenings for those who only play three games a year.<\/p>\n<p>As with all large new PC games, it may be advisable to wait for a few bugfix patches before playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just released, an interesting labour-of-love videogame from a former BioWare developer. Old Gods Rising is a single-player Windows game&#8230; Old &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/06\/07\/old-gods-rising\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}