{"id":848,"date":"2011-11-01T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2015-09-25T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:05:46","slug":"an-introduction-to-video-games-genres-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2011\/11\/an-introduction-to-video-games-genres-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction To Video Games &#8211; Genres Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I present episode 2 of An Introduction to Video Games. \u00a0In this episode, we have a look at some different genres of video games.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R4tcR91nXvc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This took forever to put together and I learnt many things, for example my video editing software does not like video files over 3GB in size and when you are 98% done with the editing process, it will crash constantly in a desperate and successful attempt to get your attention and make you want to cry\/explode\/both.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An Introduction to Video Games should always appear here, but you can also catch it on my Blip TV show page <strong>(UPDATE: No you can&#8217;t! Blip.tv got shut down!)<\/strong>. \u00a0I think you can also find it on iTunes&#8230;but I wouldn&#8217;t put money on that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Additional Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Incidentally, Blip TV: \u00a0Actually pretty cool and well worth taking a look. \u00a0I think they&#8217;re doing something very interesting that could very well be the next big thing. <strong>(UPDATE: Hahahahahahaha wooooo hindsight)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I present episode 2 of An Introduction to Video Games. \u00a0In this episode, we have a look at some different genres of video games. 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