{"id":11097,"date":"2018-01-23T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/the_creator_of_smartphone_hit_downwell_has_joined_nintendo"},"modified":"2018-01-23T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:40:00","slug":"the-creator-of-smartphone-hit-downwell-has-joined-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/23\/the-creator-of-smartphone-hit-downwell-has-joined-nintendo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creator Of Smartphone Hit Downwell Has Joined Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ojiro &#8220;Moppin&#8221; Fumoto &#8211; best known for the award-winning mobile title <strong>Downwell<\/strong> &#8211; has joined Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p>Fumoto made the announcement via his Twitter account, and his profile now features the text &#8220;Downwell \/ Nintendo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While &#8220;serious&#8221; gamers often look down on smartphone titles, Downwell is one of those rare cases of a mobile game being <em>really<\/em> good. Despite its simple controls, it delivers one of the most intense and challenging gameplay experiences you can have on a smartphone, and boasts some striking pixel visuals which call to mind the twitch arcade classics of yesteryear. It&#8217;s since been ported to Windows, PS4 and PS Vita.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u4efb\u5929\u5802\u306b\u5c31\u8077\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\uff01\u304c\u3093\u3070\u308b\u305e\u301c<\/span>\u2014 \u3082\u3063\u3074\u3093 (@moppppin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moppppin\/status\/955783832459857920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This (very roughly) translates as:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I got a job on the Nintendo DS! I&#8217;ll do my best to<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how Nintendo uses\u00a0Fumoto&#8217;s unique talents, and it&#8217;s good to know that the company is hiring such fresh talent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welcome aboard, Moppin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Ojiro &#8220;Moppin&#8221; Fumoto &#8211; best known for the award-winning mobile title Downwell &#8211; has joined Nintendo. Fumoto made the announcement via his Twitter account, and his profile now features the text &#8220;Downwell \/ Nintendo&#8221;. While &#8220;serious&#8221; gamers often look down on smartphone titles, Downwell is one of those rare cases of a mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}