{"id":149,"date":"2008-04-09T23:09:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T22:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-04-09T23:09:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T22:09:40","slug":"funorb-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/funorb-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Funorb first impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

(the new casual games portal from Jagex<\/a>, the people behind Runescape<\/a>)<\/p>\n

– good game\/website integration, very smooth
\n – very basic game design – most games seem to ahve never been playtested, or designed by very novice game-designers. Most simply aren’t fun, and need just a few basic tweaks.
\n – control systems mostly awful, bouncing and snapping and with unnecessary lag.
\n – No ability to see your achievements! Achievements rock, but they don’t seem to understand the main point of them – showing them off.
\n – artwork and sound are extremely polished.<\/p>\n

Summary:
\n – a very highly-polished (graphics, sound) attempt to clone Pogo, but without fully understanding how and why it works so well, and ultimately coming tragically short. Go play Kongregate<\/a> instead – its much more of a mixed bag, but the overall experience is much, much more satisfying.<\/p>\n

(Notes from several weeks ago, accidentally clicked save instead of publish at the time)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(the new casual games portal from Jagex, the people behind Runescape) – good game\/website integration, very smooth – very basic game design – most games seem to ahve never been playtested, or designed by very novice game-designers. Most simply aren’t fun, and need just a few basic tweaks. – control systems mostly awful, bouncing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}