{"id":2406,"date":"2012-03-14T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/14\/was-pointed-to-this-by-ianus-alexandra-tweets\/"},"modified":"2015-01-10T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T17:44:36","slug":"was-pointed-to-this-by-ianus-alexandra-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/14\/was-pointed-to-this-by-ianus-alexandra-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tumblr_m0v9665M3R1rrwkloo1_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tumblr_m0v9665M3R1rrwkloo1_500-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tumblr_m0v9665M3R1rrwkloo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tumblr_m0v9665M3R1rrwkloo1_500-100x56.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Was pointed to this by <a href=\"http:\/\/forinspirationonly.com\/\">Ianus<\/a>. Alexandra <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iotwatch\/status\/179640438142156800\">tweets<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far it seems this year\u2019s #SXSW key launch has been an app you play with your cat. Maybe now is the time to let Lindon and Berlin shine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, a marketing game about cat food. Ho hum. It\u2019s a shame there\u2019s not much more going on here beyond slapping at a screen as fast as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The piece also mentions \u201cFriskies hailed the game as the world\u2019s first ever duel-species game.\u201d Not true. I won\u2019t talk about Pig Chase, \u2018cause that\u2019s not a playable game yet. But there\u2019s plenty of prior art. My favorite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woebken.net\/beetle_wrestler.html\">Beetle Wrestler<\/a> (2008), by Chris Woebken, Natalie Jeremijenko, Lee Von Kraus and Leigha Dennis.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/designtaxi.com\/news\/351894\/First-Ever-iPad-Game-Lets-You-Play-Against-Your-Cat\/\">First Ever iPad Game Lets You Play Against Your Cat &#8211; DesignTAXI.com<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was pointed to this by Ianus. Alexandra tweets:\u00a0 &#8220;So far it seems this year\u2019s #SXSW key launch has been an app you play with your cat. Maybe now is the time to let Lindon and Berlin shine.&#8221; So yeah, a marketing game about cat food. Ho hum. It\u2019s a shame there\u2019s not much more going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/14\/was-pointed-to-this-by-ianus-alexandra-tweets\/\" 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":"standard","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":[925],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-animals"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","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=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}