{"id":373,"date":"2012-01-30T19:01:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2012-01-30T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:01:56","slug":"michael-brough-smestorp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Michael Brough: Smestorp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Michael-Brough.jpg\" alt=\"Michael-Brough\" title=\"Michael-Brough\" width=\"530\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Michael-Brough.jpg 530w, https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Michael-Brough-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael will be joining Ricky Haggett as&nbsp;he asks game designers questions. Going by&nbsp;the&nbsp;name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smestorp.com\/\">Smestorp<\/a>, Michael developed well known title <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertexdispenser.com\/\">Vertex Dispenser<\/a>, and&nbsp;more recently <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/glitch-tank\/id490257878?mt=8\">Glitch Tank<\/a>. Next to&nbsp;Eliss, it&#8217;s one of&nbsp;the&nbsp;best things I&#8217;ve played on&nbsp;an&nbsp;iPad: Local multiplayer, a&nbsp;distinct sense of&nbsp;having some control whilst lacking much more, and&nbsp;a&nbsp;high probability of&nbsp;things going mental. It&#8217;s like <a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/18\/roborally\">Robo Rally<\/a>, but more accessible and&nbsp;compulsive. I&nbsp;was sold on&nbsp;it the&nbsp;instant I&nbsp;had about a&nbsp;dozen tanks on&nbsp;screen, my&nbsp;opponent just one, and&nbsp;I&nbsp;still lost: Because the&nbsp;more you have, the&nbsp;harder it can be to&nbsp;keep track of&nbsp;what&#8217;s about to&nbsp;happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael will be joining Ricky Haggett as&nbsp;he asks game designers questions. Going by&nbsp;the&nbsp;name Smestorp, Michael developed well known title Vertex Dispenser, and&nbsp;more recently Glitch Tank. Next to&nbsp;Eliss, it&#8217;s one of&nbsp;the&nbsp;best things I&#8217;ve played on&nbsp;an&nbsp;iPad: Local multiplayer, a&nbsp;distinct sense of&nbsp;having some control whilst lacking much more, and&nbsp;a&nbsp;high probability of&nbsp;things going mental. It&#8217;s like Robo Rally, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}