{"id":2155,"date":"2014-02-28T09:12:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T09:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/28\/flappy-bird-provides-solid-evidence-that-simply\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:51","slug":"flappy-bird-provides-solid-evidence-that-simply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/28\/flappy-bird-provides-solid-evidence-that-simply\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Flappy Bird provides solid evidence that simply tuning a game well can be far more important, in terms of the player\u2019s ultimate enjoyment, than adding clever mechanics or beautiful art.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/feb\/10\/flappy-bird-is-dead-but-brilliant-mechanics-made-it-fly\">Flappy Bird is dead &#8211; but brilliant mechanics made it fly | Technology | theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s interesting to see game feel and game tuning getting more and more attention due to comments like this one from Bennett Foddy. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2013\/10\/21\/interview-jan-willem-nijman-on-nuclear-thrones-feel\/\">Jan-Willem Nijman on Nuclear Throne<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flappy Bird provides solid evidence that simply tuning a game well can be far more important, in terms of the player\u2019s ultimate enjoyment, than adding clever mechanics or beautiful art. Flappy Bird is dead &#8211; but brilliant mechanics made it fly | Technology | theguardian.com It\u2019s interesting to see game feel and game tuning getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/28\/flappy-bird-provides-solid-evidence-that-simply\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}