{"id":32369,"date":"2012-02-12T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32369"},"modified":"2012-02-13T09:56:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T07:56:48","slug":"new-smb-game-for-touch-devices-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32369-new-smb-game-for-touch-devices-in-the-works","title":{"rendered":"New SMB game for touch devices in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Team Meat\u2019s smash-hit indie Super Meat Boy made its way onto our screens, we\u2019ve been gleefully hurling ourselves into saw-blades and smashing our peripherals in frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Now the studio has announced they\u2019re making a new Super Meat Boy game \u2013 this one for touch screen devices.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes via several Twitter posts from the horse\u2019s mouth. The game will be built from the ground up and designed specifically for touch devices such as iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>If this idea sounds terrible, don\u2019t worry, Team Meat assures fans &#8220;we won\u2019t make a game with sh**ty touch controls&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The game won\u2019t play like the original Super Meat Boy, which would be a nightmare on a touch device, but the developer isn\u2019t planning on scaling back the hallmark difficulty too much, saying it &#8220;wont be a simple game like &#8220;doodle jump&#8221; it will be a larger more traditional game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the original are going to want this, Team Meat says &#8220;If you liked SMB im sure you will enjoy this (if its good enough to continue on \ud83d\ude42 ) we just had a few cool ideas and wanted a challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"CVG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/335558\/super-meat-boy-being-rebuilt-for-touch-screen-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Meat hints at possible upcoming smartphone release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":32370,"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":[2,2226],"tags":[31,1617,2357,2358],"class_list":["post-32369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-super-meat-boy","tag-team-meat","tag-touch-screen-devices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32369","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32371,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32369\/revisions\/32371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}