{"id":663,"date":"2006-02-13T07:45:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T12:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2006-02-15T10:31:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T15:31:34","slug":"open-valve-on-episodic-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Open Valve On Episodic Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something about the news over on <em>Gamespot<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/news\/6144151.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) of game developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valvesoftware.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Valve<\/a> making their blockbuster title <a href=\"http:\/\/half-life2.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Half-Life 2<\/a> episodic that&#8217;s got ideas concerning convergence and distribution bouncing around in my head. As noted in the article, the concept isn&#8217;t new, it&#8217;s just taken on much greater significance. And so has their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steampowered.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Steam<\/a> online distribution system. I was going to post my first thought last night inversely relating this to recent ongoing changes in the film industry&#8217;s distribution system, but for some reason I&#8217;m thinking this is more important. Unfortunately, sleeping on it hasn&#8217;t helped, so I&#8217;ll just have to tuck it back away for now. I have a feeling this is going to wake up on its own.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/crystaltips.typepad.com\/wonderland\/2006\/02\/halflife_goes_e.html\" target=\"blank\">Wonderland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something about the news over on Gamespot (Link) of game developer Valve making their blockbuster title Half-Life 2 episodic that&#8217;s got ideas concerning convergence and distribution bouncing around in my head. As noted in the article, the concept isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=663\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}