{"id":821,"date":"2009-06-28T21:01:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T11:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2014-05-13T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:14:32","slug":"5-second-review-flight-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Flight Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flightcontrol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flightcontrol.jpg\" alt=\"flightcontrol\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flightcontrol.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flightcontrol-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Platform:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>iPhone<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Developer:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Firemint Studios<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Publisher:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Firemint Studios<\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span>ne of the first great I-phone games, <em>Flight Control<\/em> is a simple concept that works wonders.\u00a0 You use the touchscreen to guide and land colour-coded airplanes to their corresponding landing strips.\u00a0 It never gets more complicated than this in its design and yet it has the two key hallmarks of the greatest games:\u00a0 &#8216;quick to learn, difficult to master&#8217; and &#8216;just one more go&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In selling the concept of the I-phone being a viable gaming platform, something that Apple has never successfully been able to do in the past, <em>Flight Control<\/em> is also a fantastic advertisement: It costs almost nothing and despite its simplicity, its not really a concept that could be pulled off on any other platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 second review: It takes 5 seconds to learn how to play Flight Control and it also takes this long to describe its awesomeness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[309,291,290,292],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-5-second-review","tag-flight-control","tag-iphone","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14906,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/14906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}