{"id":15327,"date":"2024-07-30T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T07:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/dreamsettler-a-time-capsule-of-the-pre-facebook-internet\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T07:37:25","slug":"dreamsettler-a-time-capsule-of-the-pre-facebook-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/dreamsettler-a-time-capsule-of-the-pre-facebook-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamsettler, a time capsule of the pre-Facebook internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hypnospace Outlaw\u2019s creative director Jay Tholen returns with a sequel that promises more tongue-in-cheek fun for people old enough to remember GeoCities<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been five years since Hypnospace Outlaw, Tendershoot\u2019s brilliantly wacky 90s internet simulator, and this spiritual sequel was announced two years ago. In the intervening time, with tech moguls snapping up social media giants, Reddit getting monetised (and in effect, censored) against the wishes of its user base, and the ever-growing presence of AI, the millennial generation\u2019s yearning for the algorithm-free wild west days of the early internet has only become more intense. At least that\u2019s how creative director Jay Tholen feels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was already bad then, but I didn\u2019t know how bad it could get,\u201d Tholen says on the current state of the world wide web.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamsettler will (hopefully) be released in 2025, on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1931040\/Dreamsettler\/\">PC<\/a> and Xbox Series X.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/jul\/30\/dreamsettler-hypnospace-outlaw-pre-facebook-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/45581e38d13d09365d6c624fd1df83b9cef1bd04\/60_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=08bd8219b9d17581b2c7e16fee4b367e\" title=\"Dreamsettler, a time capsule of the pre-Facebook internet\" \/>Hypnospace Outlaw\u2019s creative director Jay Tholen returns with a sequel that promises more tongue-in-cheek fun for people old enough to remember GeoCities<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been five years since Hypnospace Outlaw, Tendershoot\u2019s brilliantly wacky 90s internet simulator, and this spiritual sequel was announced two years ago. In the intervening time, with tech moguls snapping up social media giants, Reddit getting monetised (and in effect, censored) against the wishes of its user base, and the ever-growing presence of AI, the millennial generation\u2019s yearning for the algorithm-free wild west days of the early internet has only become more intense. At least that\u2019s how creative director Jay Tholen feels.<br \/>\n\u201cI thought it was already bad then, but I didn\u2019t know how bad it could get,\u201d Tholen says on the current state of the world wide web.<br \/>\nDreamsettler will (hopefully) be released in 2025, on PC and Xbox Series X. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypnospace Outlaw\u2019s creative director Jay Tholen returns with a sequel that promises more tongue-in-cheek fun for people old enough to remember GeoCities It\u2019s been five years since Hypnospace Outlaw, Tendershoot\u2019s brilliantly wacky 90s internet simulator, and this spiritual sequel was announced two years ago. In the intervening time, with tech moguls snapping up social media &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/dreamsettler-a-time-capsule-of-the-pre-facebook-internet\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dreamsettler, a time capsule of the pre-Facebook internet<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}