{"id":105,"date":"2017-12-01T22:42:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T04:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2017-12-01T23:30:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T05:30:35","slug":"mars-colony-12-principles-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/mars-colony-12-principles-of-play\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Mars Colony<\/em> 12 Principles of Play &mdash; No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People first.<\/strong> Don\u2019t start out trying to make political commentary. Just make a story about people. Of course they happen to live in a political moment and a political atmosphere, but if you don\u2019t play them as people first, then all you\u2019ll create is an abstract story about policies in an echo chamber. No one wants that, and it won\u2019t be interesting anyway.<\/p>\n<p>When you start with a game that focuses on telling a personal story about Kelly and those close to her, or maybe against her, then the politics that arise out of the system will feel real and they\u2019ll have stakes. And most importantly, those politics will surprise you, and that\u2019s where the game\u2019s power exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People first. Don\u2019t start out trying to make political commentary. Just make a story about people. Of course they happen to live in a political moment and a political atmosphere, but if you don\u2019t play them as people first, then all you\u2019ll create is an abstract story about policies in an echo chamber. No one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tckroleplaying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}