{"id":771,"date":"2010-12-31T00:08:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T08:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2014-02-17T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:39:07","slug":"echo-bazaar-like-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/echo-bazaar-like-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo Bazaar: Like a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/avatar_reasonably_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/avatar_reasonably_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"avatar_reasonably_small\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-774\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve discovered a little game called <a href=\"http:\/\/fallenlondon.com\">Echo Bazaar<\/a>.  It&#8217;s kind of a giant choose-your-own-adventure mixed with a collect-a-thon.  It&#8217;s hard to describe&#8230; it feeds you little bite-size bits of story and gives you several characteristics and knickknacks.  Before you know it the backwards world of Fallen London pulls you in.<\/p>\n<p>Myself, I&#8217;m kind of fashioning myself as a detective, with high &#8220;Watchful&#8221; and &#8220;Persuasive&#8221; qualities.  I&#8217;m in searching for a card game in which I can stake my soul and win my heart&#8217;s desire.  I&#8217;m learning the secret language of tattoos and growing acquainted with spies.  I have strong connections with the church and the lawmen of the city.  The game says I am magnanimous and subtle.  I&#8217;m doing favors for a mysterious benefactor, and hoping to take some classes at the university.  I recently moved into a spare room above a gambling den, paid for in whispered secrets.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is, this is a lot like what everyone else is doing, but the stories I focus on (and the order in which I tackle them) makes it feel like a very personal experience.  I&#8217;m also enamored with the nonlinear progression aspect of the game.  Everything you do affects your qualities.  One quality isn&#8217;t necessarily better than another &#8211; they just open up different opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The whole system is allowing the developers to explore storytelling in games in a unique way, through the lens of their storylets.  They&#8217;ve posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.failbettergames.com\/post\/Echo-Bazaar-Narrative-Structures-part-one.aspx\">great stuff on their blog<\/a> about the narrative structures they&#8217;re utilizing.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody&#8217;s up for it, I could use some neighbors.  Follow me on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/islemaster\">Islemaster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered a little game called Echo Bazaar. It&#8217;s kind of a giant choose-your-own-adventure mixed with a collect-a-thon. It&#8217;s hard to describe&#8230; it feeds you little bite-size bits of story and gives you several characteristics and knickknacks. Before you know it the backwards world of Fallen London pulls you in. Myself, I&#8217;m kind of fashioning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[403,402,401,13],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-failbetter-games","tag-played-in-2010","tag-released-in-2009","tag-videogame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}