{"id":25,"date":"2009-05-19T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T20:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-08-06T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:59:54","slug":"party-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/party-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26\" title=\"Party Boat\" src=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/partyboat.jpg\" alt=\"Party Boat\" width=\"610\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/partyboat.jpg 610w, https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/partyboat-300x66.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>Messhof (aka Mark Essen) has just released this dodge-the-missiles game. It is fun. But it&#8217;s <em>only<\/em> fun when <strong>you&#8217;ve worked through the three &#8216;stages of comprehension&#8217;<\/strong>, which are:<\/p>\n<p>1. realising that you&#8217;re rotating and thrusting, and &#8212; oh! &#8212; you can suddenly control the blasted helicopter<\/p>\n<p>2. remembering that the title screen told you that you can &#8216;FLIP FOR MULTIPLIERS!!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>3. stopping trying to flee from the missiles, and starting to weave elegant looping 360-degree-flipping arcs around the sky that are mathematically calculated to avoid death<\/p>\n<p>Then you&#8217;re playing it all night. <a href=\"http:\/\/messhof.com\/?page_id=32\">Play Party Boat (Flash)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messhof (aka Mark Essen) has just released this dodge-the-missiles game. It is fun. But it&#8217;s only fun when you&#8217;ve worked through the three &#8216;stages of comprehension&#8217;, which are: 1. realising that you&#8217;re rotating and thrusting, and &#8212; oh! &#8212; you can suddenly control the blasted helicopter 2. remembering that the title screen told you that you can &#8216;FLIP FOR MULTIPLIERS!!&#8217; 3. stopping trying to flee from the missiles, and starting to weave elegant looping 360-degree-flipping &#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":[6,11,10,15,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}