{"id":5297,"date":"2007-05-23T11:41:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2007\/05\/23\/a-frustratingly-unrealistic-effort-at-creating-balance-and-strategy\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T16:41:50","slug":"a-frustratingly-unrealistic-effort-at-creating-balance-and-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-frustratingly-unrealistic-effort-at-creating-balance-and-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230; a frustratingly unrealistic effort at creating balance and strategy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/texasbestgrok.mu.nu\/archives\/227349.php\">The latest offering in the rapidly overflowing strategy genre is hard evidence that strategy games need a real overhaul, and fast. Chess, a small-scale tactical turn-based strategy game, attempts to adopt the age-old &#8220;easy to learn, difficult to master&#8221; parameter made popular by Tetris. But the game&#8217;s cumbersome play mechanics and superficial depth and detail all add up to a game that won&#8217;t keep you busy for long&#8230;.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest offering in the rapidly overflowing strategy genre is hard evidence that strategy games need a real overhaul, and fast. Chess, a small-scale tactical turn-based strategy game, attempts to adopt the age-old &#8220;easy to learn, difficult to master&#8221; parameter made popular by Tetris. But the game&#8217;s cumbersome play mechanics and superficial depth and detail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-frustratingly-unrealistic-effort-at-creating-balance-and-strategy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;&#8230; a frustratingly unrealistic effort at creating balance and strategy&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1nr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}