{"id":772,"date":"2010-01-03T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T05:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2010-01-03T22:38:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T05:38:19","slug":"ultimate-rts-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2010\/01\/ultimate-rts-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Thoughts: the ultimate real-time strategy game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Games like Farmville and the iPhone knock-off iFarm throw in a unique twist in the realm of strategy gaming: crops that get planted mature in &#8220;real time&#8221;. If a crop takes 24 hours to grow, then you need to literally wait the full 24 hours. Great for making an app &#8220;sticky&#8221; and getting users to repeatedly log in. Side fact: Farmville <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avc.com\/a_vc\/2009\/12\/thinking-about-etsy-in-the-san-telmo-markets.html\">sells<\/a> more virtual tractors in a day than real tractors sold in the US in a Year.<\/p>\n<p>Game producers keep upping the ante in terms of real-time strategy games interacting with the real world. Take the latest for instance, a free iPhone app called <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=297368629&amp;mt=8\">Lose It!<\/a>. Everything in this game runs in real-time&#8211;a game day is always a full 24 hours. Instead of conventional points, it uses &#8220;calories&#8221;, which are gained by the actual foods you physically eat, and subtracted via actual exercise. The app includes a massive database of food items and exercises to help you keep an accurate record, apparently on the honor system. The goal: to set a calorie target for each day and come in under it. A secondary scoring system is based on your own weight, though you will need an accurate scale (not included with the app) to measure it.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve done pretty well at the game. I&#8217;ve averaged better than 1000 calories under my goal for the last several weeks, and have done well on the weight number too. And it&#8217;s pretty interesting to have a log of everything I&#8217;ve eaten. What will they think of next?<\/p>\n<p>More collected Geek Thoughts at http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/geekthoughts.info\/\">geekthoughts<\/a>.info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games like Farmville and the iPhone knock-off iFarm throw in a unique twist in the realm of strategy gaming: crops that get planted mature in &#8220;real time&#8221;. If a crop takes 24 hours to grow, then you need to literally wait the full 24 hours. Great for making an app &#8220;sticky&#8221; and getting users to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,34,284],"tags":[928,930,932,927,931,212,925,654,926,929],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-commercialism","category-geekthoughts","tag-calories","tag-etsy","tag-farmville","tag-gaming","tag-ifarm","tag-irony","tag-rts","tag-satire","tag-strategy","tag-weight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-cs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}