{"id":11776,"date":"2018-02-01T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314081"},"modified":"2018-02-01T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:08:00","slug":"sony-collaborates-with-facebook-on-god-of-war-text-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/01\/sony-collaborates-with-facebook-on-god-of-war-text-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony collaborates with Facebook on God of War text adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Sony has teamed up with Facebook to publish the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.messenger.com\/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.messenger.com%2Ft%2F797966307056721%2F%3Fmessaging_source%3Dsource%253Apages%253Amessage_shortlink\">text adventure<\/a> <em>God of War: A Call From The Wilds<\/em>, which is available on\u00a0Facebook&#8217;s messenger app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This isn&#8217;t the first time publishers have utilized Facebook&#8217;s messenger app to promote\u00a0extra content for a game, as Blizzard has utilized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/284119\/Blizzard_hypes_a_new_Hearthstone_expansion_with_a_Facebook_chatbot.php\">the same tech in the past<\/a>. This approach could be a\u00a0way for devs to market their games as well.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>A Call From The Wilds<\/em>\u00a0follows Kratos&#8217; son Atreus, and players progress through the\u00a0text-based choose your own adventure game by typing out commands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For example, players can see what they&#8217;re carrying by typing out &#8220;inventory&#8221; or request to investigate certain items if they&#8217;re emphasized in bold.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has teamed up with Facebook to publish the\u00a0text adventure God of War: A Call From The Wilds, which is available on\u00a0Facebook&#8217;s messenger app.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t the first time publishers have utilized Facebook&#8217;s messenger app to promote\u00a0extra content for a game, as Blizzard has utilized the same tech in the past. This approach could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776","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=11776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}