{"id":18,"date":"2018-03-25T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/25\/sunday-review-beckett\/"},"modified":"2018-03-25T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T13:15:19","slug":"sunday-review-beckett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/25\/sunday-review-beckett\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Review: Beckett"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"768\" data-orig-width=\"1366\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/98db0916925dd4e7b44e71e5946d462f\/tumblr_inline_p65dem1HSv1s2cvuu_540.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"768\" data-orig-width=\"1366\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019ve reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/sabotagereviews.com\/2018\/03\/25\/beckett-by-the-secret-experiment\/\"><i>Beckett<\/i> by The Secret Experiment for Sabotage Reviews<\/a>. Follow the link to read the full review. Here are some extracts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<p>The visuals are an impeccable homage to Dadaist art by way of Jan \u0160vankmajer. The whole game is an unsettlingly animated interactive collage (&hellip;)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>boiled down to a murky, minimalist colour palette.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Beckett<i> is far more stripped down than any of the aforementioned games \u2013 progress is mostly linear, people are represented by symbols (a bottlecap, a typewriter, a toy soldier) and voices by cycling sound samples (coughing, scissor snips, jangling coins).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<p>It disrupts its own narrative with perspectival and chronological jumps, switches between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, and extends the symbolic reach of its game-world so as to thoroughly blur the line between expressionism and interactive simulation. <\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>If visual poetry is \u2018the word made flesh\u2019, to borrow Willard Bohn\u2019s Biblical metaphor, then this is flesh that creeps and crawls (&hellip;)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve reviewed Beckett by The Secret Experiment for Sabotage Reviews. Follow the link to read the full review. Here are some extracts: The visuals are an impeccable homage to Dadaist art by way of Jan \u0160vankmajer. The whole game is an unsettlingly animated interactive collage (&hellip;)\u00a0 boiled down to a murky, minimalist colour palette. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,76,87,83,80,88,81,84,4,78,77,79,86,21,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}