{"id":401,"date":"2015-01-17T21:37:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T04:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/?p=401"},"modified":"2015-01-19T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T06:00:08","slug":"more-introductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/archives\/401","title":{"rendered":"More Introductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like I had said in class, my name is Patrick and I am an Asian History major as well as a games (and film) enthusiast. As a result, one of my main hobbies is critical discourse involved with games, narrative, etc., and my usual partner in crime in this regard is Griffin. However, I am always open to discussion and find a lot of satisfaction in helping people familiarize themselves with new material or articulate thoughts in a more concrete manner.<\/p>\n<p>I got into video games when I was very young, probably around 3 or 4, with the old Cyan (creator of Myst) titles &#8216;The Manhole&#8217; and &#8216;Cosmic Osmo&#8217;. From there, I&#8217;ve played games consistently my whole life, which has (fortunately) paid off in me being able to compete at a &#8216;professional level&#8217; with a variety of games and game types. I&#8217;ve also dabbled somewhat frequently in game development, starting around the age of 14 or so by creating maps and game modes for Warcraft 3 with a friend of mine. While I&#8217;ve created and even shared a decent amount of Mods, I&#8217;m ashamed to say I&#8217;ve never actually finished a game, although I plan to change that soon. This hobby has lent me a lot of experience in understanding games and game design, which I hope I will be able to share with the class.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edit: I should probably also include some of my gaming tastes. My favorite game is Demon&#8217;s Souls, which for separate reasons I also consider to be the best game ever made. Honorable mentions for personal favorites include the excellent hidden gems Deadly Premonition, Escape Velocity: Nova, and Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis, as well as the classics Legend of Zelda: Majora&#8217;s Mask and Banjo-Kazooie.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, the game I&#8217;m personally best at is Pokemon, I have competed several times in international (non-Nintendo) tournaments, having placed 2nd in one and was on the winning team in the game&#8217;s effective &#8216;World Cup&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like I had said in class, my name is Patrick and I am an Asian History major as well as a games (and film) enthusiast. As a result, one of my main hobbies is critical discourse involved with games, narrative, etc., and my usual partner in crime in this regard is Griffin. However, I am&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/archives\/401\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-introduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}