{"id":7241,"date":"2013-02-03T10:23:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T10:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2013-02-03T10:24:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T10:24:34","slug":"what-if-american-football-was-a-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/what-if-american-football-was-a-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"What if American Football was a video game?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of the Superbowl, Kotaku describing American Football as if it was computer game:<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Football<\/em>, the two “coaches” each start the game with a deck of forty-five players. At any given time, they can use eleven of these players. During the turn-based phase, coaches can substitute any player if they see fit, for one they deem more suited to a situation…<\/p>\n

“Downs” are “lives” in\u00a0Football<\/em>‘s battle system. If the offense can move the ball ten yards toward their goal within four downs, they get a “First Down”\u2014a “continue.” Depending on the strength of the offensive team and their ability to navigate the other team’s defense, players might experience a thrilling sensation of scoring multiple first downs in a row, without ever seeing a second, third, or the dreaded “Fourth Down.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of the Superbowl, Kotaku describing American Football as if it was computer game: In\u00a0Football, the two “coaches” each start the game with a deck of forty-five players. At any given time, they can use eleven of these players. During the turn-based phase, coaches can substitute any player if they see fit, for one they deem more suited to a situation… “Downs” are “lives” in\u00a0Football‘s battle system. If the offense can move the ball ten yards toward their goal within four downs, they get a “First Down”\u2014a “continue.” Depending on the strength of the offensive team and their ability to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[1159,1071,4125,4126],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-sports","tag-faq","tag-guide","tag-kotaku","tag-nfl","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1SN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}