{"id":49,"date":"2024-12-16T12:44:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/?p=49"},"modified":"2024-12-20T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:16:26","slug":"new-games-old-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/2024\/12\/16\/new-games-old-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Games, Old Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paywall\"><a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1393750\/Oceans_Heart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1393750\/Oceans_Heart\/\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1393750\/Oceans_Heart\/&quot;}\"><em>Ocean\u2019s Heart<\/em><\/a>, a 2-D Action RPG released in January, and similar games, play to this brain chemistry and desire for the familiar. Video games that look like 8-bit or 16-bit-pixel creations, such as\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/63710\/BITTRIP_RUNNER\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/63710\/BITTRIP_RUNNER\/\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/63710\/BITTRIP_RUNNER\/&quot;}\"><em>Bit Trip Runner<\/em><\/a>, are built for gamers who want a new, well-developed game with higher replay-ability, but an older-looking design and sound that reminds them of being a kid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The late Oliver Sacks wrote in his seminal book\u00a0<em>Musicophilia<\/em>, \u201cMusic can pierce the heart directly.\u201d The music from older games creates a subconscious emotional tug that brings us back to them\u2014in much the same way that hearing a favorite song from your high school days puts you back in that moment. The music and design of retro games have the ability to imprint on a young gamer\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Amid unstable pandemic days, there\u2019s still happiness to be found. For many, it comes in the form of these retro and retro-looking games. A welcome respite from a chaotic world, these games\u2014and their sounds\u2014can pierce the heart, as Sacks said, and instill a rare, perfect joy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/why-retro-looking-games-get-so-much-love\/\">wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean\u2019s Heart, a 2-D Action RPG released in January, and similar games, play to this brain chemistry and desire for the familiar. Video games that look like 8-bit or 16-bit-pixel creations, such as\u00a0Bit Trip Runner, are built for gamers who want a new, well-developed game with higher replay-ability, but an older-looking design and sound that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/2024\/12\/16\/new-games-old-tricks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Games, Old Tricks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794685,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/794685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}