{"id":64353,"date":"2024-06-10T02:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T02:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=64353"},"modified":"2024-06-09T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T15:23:58","slug":"the-thing-remastered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/the-thing-remastered\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thing: Remastered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Carpenter&#8217;s well-known movie <em>The Thing<\/em> (1982), had a single-player horror-shooter videogame sequel in 2002. Antarctica. Expeditions. Horrid Alien Life. Paranoia. All very familiar to Lovecraft readers. The game was popular and sold over a million copies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/thing-screenshot.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/thing-screenshot-528x396.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-64354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/thing-screenshot-528x396.webp 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/thing-screenshot-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/thing-screenshot.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s &#8220;soon&#8221; to be <em>The Thing: Remastered<\/em> (not to be confused with the remastered movie), offering an overhaul of that glorious olde Millennium-Vision look, and what sounds like some UI and other enhancements. Undated as yet, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/game\/the_thing_remastered\">it now has a page and trailer on GoG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I found a detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/the-thing-video-game-designer-artist-programmer-retrospective\">&#8220;Making of&#8221;<\/a> interview with the makers, about the original 2002 game&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Thing&#8217; creatures often have random eyeballs in strange places; that almost plant-like opening-up of structures and there being tentacles inside it; the spindly-leg stuff that pops out of things and parts of the body being able to tear away from other parts of the body and spawn more creatures [&#8230;] &#8216;Thing&#8217; creatures rarely look demonic [in the clich\u00e9d way].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Carpenter&#8217;s well-known movie The Thing (1982), had a single-player horror-shooter videogame sequel in 2002. Antarctica. Expeditions. Horrid Alien Life. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/the-thing-remastered\/\">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-64353","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\/64353","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=64353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64358,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64353\/revisions\/64358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}