{"id":69,"date":"2025-02-14T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:11:42","slug":"flog-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/flog\/flog-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Flog 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, I faced many trials and errors with Hack 2. For my first idea, I wanted to comment on the negative cultural effects of plastic surgery, namely on adolescents. More specifically, I wanted to comment on how the increasing popularity in cosmetic operations leads to unrealistic beauty standards and inherent medical concerns. I had hoped to transform the board game <em>Operation<\/em> by giving it a new skin or to customize dolls in a way that highlighted the drastic changes society seems to crave. However, as I began prototyping these ideas, I realized they were both more complicated to execute than I had anticipated. Moreover,, I found myself struggling to make the commentary feel clear to an audience that might not already be thinking critically about plastic surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, I decided that I would create a <em>Battleship<\/em>-type game that comments on the loss of innocent lives that often comes with war. While it is still in development, I have a clearer sense of what works\u2014and what does not. My original plan was to code an entirely new version of <em>Battleship<\/em> from scratch, but after many iterations, I realized the subversive effect I aimed for wasn\u2019t coming through as strongly as I\u2019d hoped, as I want some unexpected turn to occur in my game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, I\u2019m pivoting to reskinning a <em>Battleship<\/em> board, which will let me control the visual narrative more directly. My goal is to force players to confront the human cost of war in a visceral way, rather than just play a guessing game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I faced many trials and errors with Hack 2. For my first idea, I wanted to comment on the negative cultural effects of plastic surgery, namely on adolescents. More specifically, I wanted to comment on how the increasing popularity in cosmetic operations leads to unrealistic beauty standards and inherent medical concerns. I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}