{"id":699,"date":"2010-01-06T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2010-01-06T22:36:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T22:36:31","slug":"teh-hotness-amanda-palmer-on-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Teh Hotness &#8211; Amanda Palmer on &#8216;Art&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I decided to go indie, I&#8217;ve been involved in entirely too many discussion on what defines art and whether or not games are art.<\/p>\n<p>My stance is simple &#8211; I <em>believe<\/em> games can be art, but I just want to make games.  If people want to call it art &#8211; that&#8217;s up to them.  I just want to make the games I want to make and hopefully enough people enjoy what I make that I can keep making them.<\/p>\n<p>The gloriously wonderful Amanda Palmer sums it up in this little song:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9dxDREaCyjE&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9dxDREaCyjE&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Amanda Palmer rules beyond ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Link courtesy: <a href=\"http:\/\/infiniteammo.ca\/blog\/mega-rant-why-art\/\">Infinite Ammo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I decided to go indie, I&#8217;ve been involved in entirely too many discussion on what defines art and whether or not games are art. My stance is simple &#8211; I believe games can be art, but I just want to make games. If people want to call it art &#8211; that&#8217;s up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teh Hotness &#8211; Amanda Palmer on &#8216;Art&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}