{"id":14074,"date":"2011-09-16T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"indie-dev-releases-its-own-game-onto-the-torrents-includes-pirate-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/14074-indie-dev-releases-its-own-game-onto-the-torrents-includes-pirate-hats","title":{"rendered":"Indie dev releases its own game onto the torrents, includes pirate hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indie dev tinyBuild has released its critically acclaimed platformer, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinybuildgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"No Time To Explain\">No Time To Explain<\/a>, onto The Pirate Bay, but with a bit of a fun bonus &ndash; in this version, all the game&rsquo;s main characters are wearing pirate hats.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We thought it&rsquo;d be funny to leak a pirate version ourselves which is literally all about pirates and pirate hats,&rdquo; creator Alex Nichiporchik tells <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/indie-game-devs-post-pirated-game-on-the-pirate-bay-110909\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"TorrentFreak\">TorrentFreak<\/a>. &ldquo;I mean, some people are going to torrent it either way, we might as well make something funny out of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t really stop piracy, all you can do is make it work for you and\/or provide something that people actually want to pay for. For us this is humour, we like making people laugh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw very positive WTF REALLY feedback from users, and saw reactions that people bought it simply because they liked the joke. So we don&rsquo;t see it hurting sales in any way,&rdquo; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>The game was originally released on Flash portal Newgrounds in January, and became an instant hit, prompting Nichiporchik and Tom Brien to develop a full version for PC, Mac, and Linux.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17784-Indie-dev-releases-its-own-game-onto-the-torrents-includes-pirate-hats\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Indie dev releases its own game onto the torrents, includes pirate hats\"><strong>Indie dev releases its own game onto the torrents, includes pirate hats<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou can&#039;t really stop piracy, all you can do is make it work for you\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-14074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}