{"id":62,"date":"2007-02-22T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-02-22T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T17:41:10","slug":"settlers-of-catan-to-be-ported-to-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/settlers-of-catan-to-be-ported-to-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlers of Catan to be ported to XBOX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite board games is set to make its XBOX Live Arcade debut.  For anyone who hasn&#8217;t played it, Settlers of Catan is absolutely the height of analog (board) games.  Developed by game genius Klaus Teuber, SoC is simple enough to be fun for first-timers and complex enough to be enjoyed after playing it every day for weeks, something I may have done in college.<br \/>\nThe seemingly infinite variety and enjoyability of the game comes from a dynamic hexagonal board that is literally different every time you play and its heavy reliance on player interaction.  That&#8217;s why it will be perfect for XBOX Live Arcade, playing on a simple user interface and leaning on the ability to play ranked competition.  This makes me want an XBOX 360 bad.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/catan.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s an interview with the creative director of Big Huge games, the developer of Settlers of Catan for the Arcade.  Find it &#8220;here&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2007\/02\/22\/off-the-grid-interviews-brian-reynolds-of-big-huge-games\/\">http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2007\/02\/22\/off-the-grid-interviews-brian-reynolds-of-big-huge-games\/<\/a> (thanks Mike)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who hasn&#8217;t played it, Settlers of Catan is absolutely the height of analog (board) games.  Developed by game genius Klaus Teuber, SoC is simple enough to be fun for first-timers and complex enough to be enjoyed after playing it every day for weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}