{"id":112017,"date":"2016-11-26T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=112017"},"modified":"2016-12-02T23:42:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:42:06","slug":"genital-jousting-publishers-wife-went-into-labour-2-hours-before-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/112017-genital-jousting-publishers-wife-went-into-labour-2-hours-before-launch","title":{"rendered":"Genital Jousting publisher\u2019s wife went into labour 2 hours before launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two hours before launch on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/469820\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Early Access<\/a><\/strong>, developers at South African game studio Free Lives were still hard at work on their new game, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genitaljousting.com\" target=\"_blank\">Genital Jousting<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also at T minus two hours, their publisher Devolver Digital informed them that the person looking after their game was having a baby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigel\u2019s wife just went into labour,\u201d Free Lives producer Shaz Greenwood tells the camera in a documentary video uploaded to YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting,\u201d Greenwood looks on the verge of tears, probably a mixture of stress and joy. \u201cWe\u2019re launching in two hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is nothing short of modern poetry.<\/p>\n<p>On one end of the world, the fruit of one publisher&#8217;s DNA rifle is about to be born into this world. On the other, a team is furiously trying to iron all the game-breaking bugs out of their game about penises with sphincters.<\/p>\n<p>Not even Shakespeare could have composed such delightfully crude beauty.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kzFWES7yEs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/92333-broforce-earned-sa-developer-free-lives-over-r30-million.html\">Broforce earned SA developer Free Lives over R30 million<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s like a piece of modern poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":112021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1471,18761,23447],"class_list":["post-112017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-devolver-digital","tag-genital-jousting","tag-shaz-greenwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}