{"id":137,"date":"2009-06-06T00:24:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T23:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2010-08-07T22:27:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T22:27:27","slug":"spacetacular-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/spacetacular-voyage\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacetacular Voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/spacetacularvoyage.jpg\" rel=\"image_group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139 aligncenter\" title=\"Spacetacular Voyage\" src=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/spacetacularvoyage.jpg\" alt=\"Spacetacular Voyage\" width=\"443\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/spacetacularvoyage.jpg 443w, https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/spacetacularvoyage-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wait, come back! <strong>Spacetacular Voyage<\/strong> by Sash MacKinnon might be cursed with a teeth-clenchingly awful name. <em>And<\/em> some equally bad puns, eg &#8220;It&#8217;s a sine&#8221;. <em>BUT <\/em>it plays a blinder. Your spaceship&#8217;s just a glorified mouse cursor, and to survive you have to dodge, push past or blast through a waterfall of falling geometric shapes. It <em>just works<\/em>, and it&#8217;s not short on ideas: one minute you&#8217;re using brute force to wade through a hailstorm of clonking great balls, the next you&#8217;re negotiating a twisting path of innocent-looking squares.<em> One of the few games of late that has the decency to weave physics into its play<\/em>, rather than half-heartedly sellotape some gravity algorithms to its head and saunter off for a coffee and biscuit. I like it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2games.com\/play\/skill\/1235.htm\"><strong>Play Spacetacular Voyage (Flash)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait, come back! Spacetacular Voyage by Sash MacKinnon might be cursed with a teeth-clenchingly awful name. And some equally bad puns, eg &#8220;It&#8217;s a sine&#8221;. BUT it plays a blinder. Your spaceship&#8217;s just a glorified mouse cursor, and to survive you have to dodge, push past or blast through a waterfall of falling geometric shapes. It just works, and it&#8217;s not short on ideas: one minute you&#8217;re using brute force to wade through a hailstorm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94],"tags":[6,11,67,10,70,69,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}