{"id":693,"date":"2009-09-03T15:14:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T05:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=693"},"modified":"2009-09-03T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T08:00:45","slug":"spelunky-coming-to-xbla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/09\/03\/spelunky-coming-to-xbla\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelunky coming to XBLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/spelunky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-694\" title=\"spelunky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/spelunky-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"spelunky\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/spelunky-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/spelunky.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Derek Yu&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spelunkyworld.com\/\">Spelunky<\/a> is a fantastic free game for Windows. \u00a0it&#8217;s a blend between platformer and NetHack; \u00a0platforming mechanics in a randomly generated world, with dozens of different objects and monsters, and all sorts of secrets and fun little game mechanics to discover. \u00a0It&#8217;s also\u00a0one of the few games which has me regularly\u00a0rebooting into Windows just to play it. \u00a0MMORPG Tycoon 2 would undoubtedly be much further along in development if it wasn&#8217;t for Mr. Yu&#8217;s little game.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s been announced that Spelunky is coming to Xbox Live Arcade next year, with buffed up graphics and even more <em>stuff<\/em>. \u00a0With that sort of productivity-killing distraction coming down the pipes I really need to hurry up in my own development, or I&#8217;ll never manage to finish my own projects!<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT<\/strong>: \u00a0Oh my, that was embarrassing. \u00a0When initially posted, I mistakenly credited Spelunky to Derek Smart, rather than to Derek Yu. \u00a0Derek Smart, of course, is the controversial man behind the equally controversial <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battlecruiser_3000AD\">BattleCruiser<\/a> series, whereas Derek Yu is one of the affable and entertaining chaps responsible for the equally affable and entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit-blot.com\/aquaria\/\">Aquaria<\/a>. \u00a0Big apologies to both, for my inexplicable brain fart and the confusion it may have generated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Yu&#8217;s Spelunky is a fantastic free game for Windows. \u00a0it&#8217;s a blend between platformer and NetHack; \u00a0platforming mechanics in a randomly generated world, with dozens of different objects and monsters, and all sorts of secrets and fun little game mechanics to discover. \u00a0It&#8217;s also\u00a0one of the few games which has me regularly\u00a0rebooting into Windows&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":[31],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-bb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}