{"id":43958,"date":"2012-08-30T13:33:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43958"},"modified":"2012-08-30T13:36:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:36:18","slug":"evoland-free-game-a-trip-through-video-game-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43958-evoland-free-game-a-trip-through-video-game-history","title":{"rendered":"EvoLand free game: a trip through video game history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many games manage to be both educational <em>and<\/em> entertaining, but Nicholas Cannasse&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ncannasse.fr\/file\/ld24\/ld24.html\" target=\"_blank\">EvoLand<\/a> is both of these things plus more nostalgia than a whole box of triple-ply <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Code_wheel\" target=\"_blank\">code wheels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Zelda-style adventure that starts off with low-resolution monochrome graphics and simple horizontal movement, and increases in visual and gameplay complexity as you go on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43964\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/evoland-screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43964\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43964\" title=\"evoland screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/evoland-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/evoland-screenshot.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/evoland-screenshot-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/evoland-screenshot-250x168.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just like a real childhood, especially if your own included a Golden China console.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The game was created as part of the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludum_Dare\" target=\"_blank\">Ludum Dare<\/a> competition, which challenges entrants to develop a game in just 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>You can play it right now for free in your browser, and don&#8217;t give up just because of the choppy scrolling near the start. That&#8217;s part of video game history too, remember. <em>It gets better.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EvoLand\" href=\"http:\/\/ncannasse.fr\/file\/ld24\/ld24.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Play EvoLand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/z1rl3\/found_an_enjoyable_little_zeldaish_game_that_lets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/29498-5-unforgettable-game-themes-from-yesteryear.html\">5 Unforgettable game themes from yesteryear<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43756-15-games-that-aged-horribly.html\">15 games that aged horribly<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43650-a-brief-history-of-zombie-games.html\">A Brief History of Zombie Games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/41784-7-free-retro-pc-games-you-have-to-play.html\" target=\"_blank\">7 free retro games you have to play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/41464-3-games-that-will-teach-your-kids-valuable-lessons.html\">3 games that will teach your kids valuable lessons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LudumDare entry brings the nostalgia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":43963,"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],"tags":[31,6534,1587,6535],"class_list":["post-43958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-evoland","tag-retro","tag-video-game-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43958","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43968,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43958\/revisions\/43968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}