{"id":283,"date":"2008-10-14T20:07:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=283"},"modified":"2008-10-14T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T11:00:09","slug":"de-blob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/10\/14\/de-blob\/","title":{"rendered":"De Blob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/deblob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-280\" title=\"deblob\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/deblob-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/deblob-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/deblob.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a>Colour is important!\u00a0 Colour is life!\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be repressed by De Man who wants you to live in a greyscale universe!\u00a0 Join the resistance and paint your world in all the colours of life!\u00a0 Want to know more?\u00a0 Just read our.. um.. instruction manual that&#8217;s printed entirely in black and white.<\/p>\n<p>Pay no attention to the typesetter behind the curtain!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So a few friends of mine over at BlueTongue just released their latest game, &#8216;De Blob&#8217;, for the Nintendo Wii.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a game about painting a greyscale world, and it seems to have been received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/wii\/deblob\">pretty well<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve played it a bit myself (just the first three levels), and I find it&#8217;s a great &#8220;chill out&#8221; sort of game where you can just tool around and do things;\u00a0 there&#8217;s always stuff to do, there&#8217;s never any severe time pressure, and you always feel like you&#8217;re making progress toward some eventual goal without ever getting overly stressed out over anything in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that sort of game style doesn&#8217;t appeal to everyone, but on some days it&#8217;s exactly what I need.\u00a0 It&#8217;s simple, relatively mindless fun, and the synchronisation between the music and your actions is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m afraid that I have to deduct points for the instruction manual.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/deblob.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colour is important!\u00a0 Colour is life!\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be repressed by De Man who wants you to live in a greyscale universe!\u00a0 Join the resistance and paint your world in all the colours of life!\u00a0 Want to know more?\u00a0 Just read our.. um.. instruction manual that&#8217;s printed entirely in black and white. Pay no attention to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-4z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}