{"id":9,"date":"2005-04-07T13:16:24","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T21:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-10-11T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T22:57:02","slug":"wik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Wik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Current mood: Belly full of spice<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My cousin <strong>Brian<\/strong> works for a game company, which semi-recently published a game called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikgame.com\/\">Wik: Fable of Souls<\/a> which is pretty much the definitve work in the field of tongue-swinging-action-puzzle games&#8230; that is to say, it <em>is<\/em> the entire genre. If you are into games, you will know how tremendoulsy unoriginal and derivative 99 percent of games are out there (even the good ones), so making a game in that <a href=\"http:\/\/katamaridamacy.jp\/\">1 percent<\/a> that is unique and original, is pretty darn cool. They actually won a bunch of awards for it at the Independant Games Festival at the 2005 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">IGC<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">[Image redacted due to internettyness]<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\nAll modern awards ceremonies are slaves to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oscars\">Oscars<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meme\">Meme<\/a>, so naturally whenever they won, they came up on stage to accept their award and say a few words into the microphone.<\/p>\n<p>On their third trip to the stage, my <em>other<\/em> cousin, <strong>Andrew<\/strong> joined them, in spite of the fact that he does not work for the company, was not involved in the making of the game, and was only there to support his brother. This delights me. It delights me enough to blog it ;)<\/p>\n<p>Guess who is who :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current mood: Belly full of spice My cousin Brian works for a game company, which semi-recently published a game called Wik: Fable of Souls which is pretty much the definitve work in the field of tongue-swinging-action-puzzle games&#8230; that is to say, it is the entire genre. If you are into games, you will know how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}