{"id":1013,"date":"2017-02-07T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2017-01-02T18:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T18:50:46","slug":"onm-remembered-458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered &#8211; #458"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;If things are getting tough and your Yoshis are being slaughtered, it&#8217;s time to call on a renegade band of mercenaries.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/onmems-440.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/thumb\/onmems-440th.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Official Nintendo Magazine issue 62 (November 1997)<br \/>\n(big ups to <a href=\"http:\/\/oldgamemags.com\"> oldgamemags.com<\/a> for the scans!)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I discussed this topic <a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=501\">before<\/a> while covering another Spice Game, but applying strategy game mechanics to a 2D platformer always tickles me, even if it&#8217;s bound to be impractical as hell and nowhere near as nifty as it sounds in my mind. It&#8217;s like if <i>Mario Maker<\/i> had players on both sides; one guy wants to make an inpenetrable fortress with strong foes but limited resources, and the other ones to break in with their own skilled characters and tools.<br \/>\nThe idea completely breaks down once you develop it beyond that incredibly vague concept &#8211; and the Spice Game isn&#8217;t even a 2D platformer, but a bog-standard <i> Command &amp; Conquer<\/i> clone &#8211; but dang it, work with me here! I&#8217;m brainstorming killer ideas and banking on someone else to do the hard work for me! Why else would I run this column for four years but to plant harebrained ideas into people&#8217;s heads?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If things are getting tough and your Yoshis are being slaughtered, it&#8217;s time to call on a renegade band of mercenaries.&#8221; from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 62 (November 1997) (big ups to oldgamemags.com for the scans!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[27,37,56],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-mario","tag-onm","tag-spice-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}