{"id":2350,"date":"2009-05-20T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T19:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2009-05-20T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T19:43:49","slug":"on-a-new-lego-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2350","title":{"rendered":"On a New LEGO Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have I mentioned recently how much I like LEGO?<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5262919\/lego-rts-coming-to-ds-sneaks-into-nyc\">There&#8217;s a LEGO strategy game coming out for the Nintendo DS<\/a>.  Think <i>Age of Empires<\/i>, but with LEGO!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called <i>LEGO Battles<\/i>, and it starts out with Castles, then Pirates, and finally Space!  You build buildings, and they&#8217;re LEGO buildings.  Then you build LEGO units, and they&#8217;re minifigs.  This sounds awesome.  And it would give me a reason to play my Nintendo DS. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The Wizard shown in the artwork with the article looks like the LEGO Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>Several things in the article annoy me, by the way.  LEGO is spelled all caps.  And LEGO is the plural form of LEGO.  Also, &#8220;Lego men&#8221; are &#8220;minifigs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope this game is fun.  I hope I won&#8217;t buy it just for the novelty factor.<\/p>\n<p>And it can&#8217;t come too soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have I mentioned recently how much I like LEGO? Didn&#8217;t think so. There&#8217;s a LEGO strategy game coming out for the Nintendo DS. Think Age of Empires, but with LEGO! It&#8217;s called LEGO Battles, and it starts out with Castles, then Pirates, and finally Space! You build buildings, and they&#8217;re LEGO buildings. Then you build<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2350\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a New LEGO Video Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[4103,4091],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legos","tag-lego","tag-video-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}