{"id":2028,"date":"2010-01-19T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/19\/because-this-is-the-place-for-long-form-content\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:48:00","slug":"because-this-is-the-place-for-long-form-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/because-this-is-the-place-for-long-form-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Because this is the place for long-form content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this on IRC and I feel like sharing it with you. My name (over and over) omitted.<br \/>\nfinal fantasy crystal chronicles my life as a darklord<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a tower defense game<br \/>\ntower defense pisses me off because it falls into the category of &#8220;games that eventually get impossibly hard&#8221;<br \/>\nmight sound weird but i don&#8217;t like games where it gets harder as you go along<br \/>\nthe point of these games is you&#8217;re supposed to learn and hone your skills so you can face the challenges later<br \/>\nbut i don&#8217;t think game devs get that, i think they expect you to lose more often as you go along<br \/>\nwhich to me means there&#8217;s less incentive to continue<br \/>\nanyway it&#8217;s an interesting game because instead of building towers to ward off invaders, you&#8217;re building FLOORS on a SINGLE tower.<br \/>\nbut that basically means it&#8217;s less flexible than your average tower defense game since you&#8217;re putting attackers on a one-dimensional grid rather than two.<br \/>\nanyway that is the longest rant i have written in 5 years so read well.<br \/>\nor don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this on IRC and I feel like sharing it with you. My name (over and over) omitted. final fantasy crystal chronicles my life as a darklord it&#8217;s a tower defense game tower defense pisses me off because it falls into the category of &#8220;games that eventually get impossibly hard&#8221; might sound weird but&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/because-this-is-the-place-for-long-form-content\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Because this is the place for long-form content<\/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":[2],"tags":[40,52,83],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-games","tag-irc","tag-rant","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}