{"id":1636,"date":"2009-07-20T10:45:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2009-07-20T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:45:31","slug":"social-gaming-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/social-gaming-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Gaming Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/features\/2009-07-20\/social-games-the-industrys-new-wild-west.aspx\">My latest feature for Crispy Gamer is up<\/a>. Remarkably few edits this time, which either means I&#8217;m getting the hang of this or Ryan Kuo has just given up on me.<\/p>\n<p>I write about social gaming &#8211; Facebook games mostly. I also talk to a rep from <a href=\"http:\/\/omgpop.com\">OMGPOP<\/a>, an arcade game site that targets high school\/college kids and is all about developing new networks of friends instead of just leeching connections from your active Friend List. Mr. Forman told me a lot of stuff I didn&#8217;t even use. Like how Nexon in Korea pioneered this business model. How traditional game development is just as imitative and unoriginal as social game design.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Brian Reynolds and Steve Meretzky gave me more than I could find a space for. Three hours of interviews. Maybe I&#8217;ll be able to work some of that stuff into a future article or post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest feature for Crispy Gamer is up. Remarkably few edits this time, which either means I&#8217;m getting the hang of this or Ryan Kuo has just given up on me. I write about social gaming &#8211; Facebook games mostly. I also talk to a rep from OMGPOP, an arcade game site that targets high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[117,9,78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-qo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}