{"id":38094,"date":"2012-05-19T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38094"},"modified":"2012-05-19T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T07:33:44","slug":"journey-creator-computer-games-are-not-good-enough-for-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38094-journey-creator-computer-games-are-not-good-enough-for-adults","title":{"rendered":"Journey creator: &#8220;Computer games are not good enough for adults&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creator of the innovative game Journey, Jenova Chen, believes that most video games aren\u2019t stimulating enough for adults, and need to include more relevant themes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My biggest complaint for computer games so far is they are not good enough for adults,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that&#8217;s related to real life. Playing poker teaches you how to deceive people, and that&#8217;s relevant to real life. A headshot with a sniper rifle is not relevant to real life. Games have to be relevant intellectually.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You also need depth. You have the adventure &#8211; the thrill of the adventure &#8211; but you want the goosebumps too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can games make you and another human learn something intellectual and relevant from each other?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can games make you and another human experience an emotion that&#8217;s deep enough to touch adults? I&#8217;m working on all of that. Making emotional games and making them intellectually relevant; making games where people can connect and come together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-05-18-journey-creator-games-are-not-good-enough-for-adults\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Journey developer to announce new game this year\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37220-journey-developer-to-announce-new-game-this-year.html\" target=\"_blank\">Journey developer to announce new game this year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"The best games of 2012 (so far)\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/35832-the-best-games-of-2012-so-far.html\">The best games of 2012 (so far)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Indie gem alert: Journey review roundup\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/34433-indie-gem-alert-journey-review-roundup.html\">Indie gem alert: Journey review roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games are not intellectually relevant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":28011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,4071,2787,2788],"class_list":["post-38094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-jenova-chen","tag-journey","tag-thatgamecompany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38095,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38094\/revisions\/38095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}