{"id":122,"date":"2008-07-28T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2008-07-28T09:12:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T14:12:36","slug":"ikariam-my-favorite-new-web-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/ikariam-my-favorite-new-web-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikariam: My favorite new web game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve been playing a new web game called Ikariam. It’s a slow paced version of Civilization only you’re playing with thousands of other people.<\/p>\n

I enjoy games like Civilization and SimCity. However they have a downside, they take too much time. I invetably get sucked in and play for hours at a time. While that may not be a problem when you have hours to waist, it doesn’t happen all that often for me. Enter Ikariam.<\/p>\n

Two key features for Ikariam are the pace of gameplay and interacting with other players.<\/p>\n

First the game forces you to take a break by causing things to happen over a long period of time. For example, if you build a building, it may take 4-8 hours to complete. During which it doesn’t do any good to sit around babysit. This means you can log on once or twice a day for 5-10 minutes and not worry about falling behind.<\/p>\n

Start playing at: ikariam.com<\/a> (Choose world Epsilon if you want to be on the same server as me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve been playing a new web game called Ikariam. It’s a slow paced version of Civilization only you’re playing with thousands of other people. I enjoy games like Civilization and SimCity. However they have a downside, they take too much time. I invetably get sucked in and play for hours at a time. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}