{"id":268,"date":"2006-07-08T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2006-07-08T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T07:53:00","slug":"sometimes-beta-testing-throws-up-something-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/08\/sometimes-beta-testing-throws-up-something-unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, beta testing throws up something unexpected&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of poeple beta testing Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso and this morning I was reading through some e-mails that arrived overnight.  Imagine the wonderful pleasure I felt when I read this in an e-mail from one of the testers:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;All in all, I&#8217;m completely and thoroughly happy that the game is so much fun, and requires me to do more thinking. It&#8217;s not as easy as it first appears to be, and I love it!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You often see quotes from &#8220;stars&#8221; of the industry and from the major magazines and websites, but for me a response like this from a player tells me so much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of poeple beta testing Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso and this morning I was reading through some e-mails that arrived overnight. Imagine the wonderful pleasure I felt when I read this in an e-mail from one of the testers: &#8220;All in all, I&#8217;m completely and thoroughly happy that the game is so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/08\/sometimes-beta-testing-throws-up-something-unexpected\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sometimes, beta testing throws up something unexpected&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}