{"id":329,"date":"2008-09-01T23:56:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T21:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/09\/01\/you-made-it\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T00:16:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T22:16:56","slug":"you-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/09\/01\/you-made-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You made it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered this great game site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigsource.com\/\">The Independent Gaming Source<\/a> which is all about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indie_games\">indie games<\/a>. While those games really feel back-to-basics, they also feel back-to-roots; you know, what gaming <em>really<\/em> is about. \ud83d\ude09 While I admit to be colored by some nostalgia, it really makes you ponder what good games really are about. <\/p>\n<p>Due to the size of big game companies and the money involved, refreshing game concepts are too risky to try out. But this doesn&#8217;t affect the indie game developer who has nothing to loose. So we actually shouldn&#8217;t be surprised to find some very entertaining game concepts in the indie camp, be it maybe somewhat less polished or technically advanced as its &#8216;commercial&#8217; siblings.<\/p>\n<p>I just played &#8220;You made it&#8221; (runs fine under linux\/wine) and although the concept is so simple, I was surprised how addictive it was and how I loved the added difficulty induced by a non clearing backbuffer. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<center><a href='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/youmadeit.png' title='You made it'><img src='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/youmadeit.thumbnail.png' alt='You made it' \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoyogames.com\/games\/launch\/48522\">try it for yourself<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered this great game site: The Independent Gaming Source which is all about indie games. While those games really feel back-to-basics, they also feel back-to-roots; you know, what gaming really is about. \ud83d\ude09 While I admit to be colored by some nostalgia, it really makes you ponder what good games really are about. Due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/09\/01\/you-made-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You made it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}