{"id":4467,"date":"2013-06-22T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T20:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2013-06-22T13:52:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T20:52:39","slug":"worlds-most-depressing-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/22\/worlds-most-depressing-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s Most Depressing Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

from SPIN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Joy Division Inspire World’s Most Depressing Video Game<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Kyle McGovern<\/a><\/p>\n

Play ‘Will Love Tear Us Apart?’ now, doubt the existence of true love later!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s something no one knew they needed: A video game based on Joy Division’s\u00a0“Love Will Tear Us Apart.”<\/a>\u00a0Thanks to European developer Mighty Box Games, that need has been satiated.\u00a0Will Love Tear Us Apart?<\/em>\u00a0is a “free-to-play browser-game about relationships on the brink of breaking up,” according to the game’s\u00a0official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Each verse of Joy Division’s signature song represents a different level, and the game as a whole is supposed to encourage players to “reflect on the darker side of love: miscommunication, emotional impasse and the sadness of separation… What guides this game is an ambition to frustrate, upset, and sting the player into remembering the dark days preceding the death of a relationship.” Fun!<\/p>\n

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from SPIN Joy Division Inspire World’s Most Depressing Video Game by\u00a0Kyle McGovern Play ‘Will Love Tear Us Apart?’ now, doubt the existence of true love later! Here’s something no one knew they needed: A video game based on Joy Division’s\u00a0“Love Will Tear Us Apart.”\u00a0Thanks to European developer Mighty Box Games, that need has been satiated.\u00a0Will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}