{"id":1757,"date":"2009-05-26T09:58:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/05\/26\/fiction-computer-games-and-dantes-inferno\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:58:13","slug":"fiction-computer-games-and-dantes-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/05\/26\/fiction-computer-games-and-dantes-inferno\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction, Computer Games and Dante&#8217;s Inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HSMPmuXzrgQ\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HSMPmuXzrgQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/bookreviews\/5291671\/Endpaper---Fiction-reaches-a-new-level.html\">article by Tim Martin in <i>The Telegraph<\/i><\/a> about how computer games are having a growing influence on literature.&nbsp; As the game&#8217;s trailer shows, the upcoming computer game, <i>Dante&#8217;s Inferno<\/i>, will be a wild ride into hell.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure the game is full of levels as most games are and as Dante&#8217;s original literary <i>Inferno<\/i> certainly is.&nbsp; It will also most likely contain a good sampling of quotations from the original since you&#8217;ve got two poets running around in hell making observations and explaining things for all of us.&nbsp; In the electronic version I&#8217;m sure that Dante will get to cut off many limbs and heads and such things.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know &#8211; is gaming influencing literature or the other way around?&nbsp; Maybe a little.&nbsp; I think gaming is having more of an effect on film making.&nbsp; Maybe the answer is in the trailer.&nbsp; I also think that if you are going to make a game based on Inferno, you should not make it an action game.&nbsp; You should make it an open-ended exploration of hell.&nbsp; Just that.&nbsp; No more required.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=3043ac9b-e43f-89bc-a454-664539697aa5\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article by Tim Martin in The Telegraph about how computer games are having a growing influence on literature.&nbsp; As the game&#8217;s trailer shows, the upcoming computer game, Dante&#8217;s Inferno, will be a wild ride into hell.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure the game is full of levels as most games are and as Dante&#8217;s original literary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,3,78],"tags":[418,348],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-comment","category-games","category-literature","tag-dantes-inferno","tag-trailer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}