{"id":2379,"date":"2012-04-11T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/11\/retro-80s-graphics-are-sentimental-fluff-for\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:59","slug":"retro-80s-graphics-are-sentimental-fluff-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/11\/retro-80s-graphics-are-sentimental-fluff-for\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>retro \u201980s graphics are sentimental fluff for modern adults who grew up in front of 1980s game-console machines. Eight-bit graphics are pretty easy to carve out of styrofoam. There\u2019s a low barrier-to-entry in making sculpture from 8-bit, so that you can \u201crupture the interface between the digital and the physical.\u201d However 8-bit sculptures are a cute, backward-looking rupture.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/beyond_the_beyond\/2012\/04\/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic\/\">An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Which is also what I find so tiresome about much of indie game aesthetics today.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retro \u201980s graphics are sentimental fluff for modern adults who grew up in front of 1980s game-console machines. Eight-bit graphics are pretty easy to carve out of styrofoam. There\u2019s a low barrier-to-entry in making sculpture from 8-bit, so that you can \u201crupture the interface between the digital and the physical.\u201d However 8-bit sculptures are a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/11\/retro-80s-graphics-are-sentimental-fluff-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}