{"id":1293,"date":"2010-09-03T17:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T23:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2010-09-08T13:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T19:53:31","slug":"warren-spector-games-art-epic-mickey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/09\/warren-spector-games-art-epic-mickey\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Spector on Games as Art, Epic Mickey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Games are an art form. I proudly wear my scarlet letter &#8212; A for art!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepro.com\/article\/news\/216373\/pax-keynote-spector-speaks\/\">Warren Spector<\/a>, keynote speaker at PAX 2010<\/p>\n<p>Warren Spector is lead developer of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epic_Mickey\">Epic Mickey<\/a>, a videogame that is &#8220;part of an effort by The Walt Disney Company to re-brand the Mickey Mouse character by moving away from his current squeaky clean image and reintroducing the mischievous side of his personality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Screenshots from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kM_A36duCoA\">opening sequence<\/a>: the sorceror retires for the night &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/epic-mickey-00.png\" alt=\"Epic Mickey\" title=\"Epic Mickey\" width=\"588\" height=\"329\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/epic-mickey-00.png 588w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/epic-mickey-00-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mickey faces the consequences of his actions:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/epic-mickey-02.png\" alt=\"Epic Mickey\" title=\"Epic Mickey\" width=\"589\" height=\"332\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/epic-mickey-02.png 589w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/epic-mickey-02-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was fascinated by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantasia_%28film%29\">Fantasia<\/a> &#8212; especially <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantasia_%28film%29#The_Sorcerer.27s_Apprentice\">The Sorceror&#8217;s Apprentice<\/a> &#8212; at an early age. So yes, I&#8217;m curious what Epic Mickey has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Games are an art form. I proudly wear my scarlet letter &#8212; A for art!&#8221; &#8212; Warren Spector, keynote speaker at PAX 2010 Warren Spector is lead developer of Epic Mickey, a videogame that is &#8220;part of an effort by The Walt Disney Company to re-brand the Mickey Mouse character by moving away from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,164,167,166,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-disney","category-ellis-warren","category-mickey-mouse","category-pax-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}