{"id":234395,"date":"2026-04-01T02:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/indie-studio-co-founder-believes-nobody-cares-about-huge-open-worlds-anymore-instead-devs-should-pick-just-one-thing-and-do-it-exceptionally-well"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:05:44","slug":"indie-studio-co-founder-believes-nobody-cares-about-huge-open-worlds-anymore-instead-devs-should-pick-just-one-thing-and-do-it-exceptionally-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/indie-studio-co-founder-believes-nobody-cares-about-huge-open-worlds-anymore-instead-devs-should-pick-just-one-thing-and-do-it-exceptionally-well","title":{"rendered":"Indie studio co-founder believes \u2018nobody cares about\u2019 huge open worlds anymore instead devs should pick just one thing and do it \u2018exceptionally well\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indie-studio-co-founder-believes-nobody-cares-about-huge-open-worlds-anymore-instead-devs-should-pick-just-one-thing-and-do-it-exceptionally-well.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m certainly feeling that big game burnout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m certainly feeling that big game burnout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}