{"id":7379,"date":"2021-12-18T10:26:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T17:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2021-12-14T22:27:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T05:27:05","slug":"long-long-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2021\/12\/18\/long-long-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Long Ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, <span class=\"data\">\u00a0Hidetaka Miyazaki and his incredible team of game designers, the creators of the DARK SOULS videogame series, reached out from Japan to ask me to help them create the backstory and history for a new game they were working on.\u00a0 Now, video games are not really my thing &#8212; oh, I played a few back in the dawn of time, mainly strategy games like RAILROAD TYCOON, ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS, and MASTER OF ORION &#8212; but this offer was too exciting to refuse.\u00a0 Miyazaki and his team from FromSoftware were doing\u00a0 groundbreaking stuff with gorgeous art, and what they wanted from me was just a bit of worldbuilding: a deep, dark, resonant world to serve as a foundation for the game they planned to create.\u00a0\u00a0 And as it happens, I love creating worlds and writing imaginary history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So I did my bit, and handed off to my new friends in Japan, and they took it from there.\u00a0\u00a0 And years passed.\u00a0\u00a0 Videogames are as big as movies these days (bigger, actually)&#8230; and take just as long to create.<\/p>\n<p>But the day of ELDEN RING is finally at hand.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve got to say, it looks<strong><em> incredible.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ELDEN RING - Story Trailer\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K_03kFqWfqs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ELDEN RING - Official Gameplay Reveal\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E3Huy2cdih0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ELDEN\u00a0 RING will be released on February 25, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, \u00a0Hidetaka Miyazaki and his incredible team of game designers, the creators of the DARK SOULS videogame series, reached out from Japan to ask me to help them create the backstory and history for a new game they were working on.\u00a0 Now, video games are not really my thing &#8212; oh, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[236,314,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7386,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}