{"id":1349,"date":"2007-05-28T17:11:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/28\/desktop-tower-defense-totally-rulez\/"},"modified":"2007-05-28T17:11:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T21:11:01","slug":"desktop-tower-defense-totally-rulez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/28\/desktop-tower-defense-totally-rulez\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Tower Defense totally rulez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t really Web 2.0 or social media or anything like that (depending on your definition, of course) but for some reason I just love <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/05\/27\/desktop-tower-defense\/\">this story<\/a> from GigaOm&#8217;s James Wagner Au about the rise of Desktop Tower Defense. Paul Preece&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handdrawngames.com\/\">Flash mini-game<\/a> has exploded in a truly viral way, to the point where he is getting <em>20 million page views<\/em> a month. That could translate into six figures in revenue, and the hosting costs are minimal. Isn&#8217;t the Web great?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.handdrawngames.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"center\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/dtd2.jpg?w=525\" alt='dtd2.jpg' border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t really Web 2.0 or social media or anything like that (depending on your definition, of course) but for some reason I just love this story from GigaOm&#8217;s James Wagner Au about the rise of Desktop Tower Defense. Paul Preece&#8217;s Flash mini-game has exploded in a truly viral way, to the point where he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/28\/desktop-tower-defense-totally-rulez\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Desktop Tower Defense totally rulez&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}