{"id":817,"date":"2017-09-27T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/306651"},"modified":"2017-09-27T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:38:00","slug":"seas-the-advantage-cruise-company-carnival-gets-into-mobile-casino-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/27\/seas-the-advantage-cruise-company-carnival-gets-into-mobile-casino-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea&#8217;s the advantage: Cruise company Carnival gets into mobile casino games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel company Carnival\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocean.com\/ocean\/press\/10313342457002490110112103121043625213\">announced<\/a> this week that it&#8217;s launching a new suite of mobile games aimed at entertaining guests on its various cruise lines, either via in-person interactions (pictured) or good ol&#8217; gambling.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really interesting here is how these mobile casino games will work: they&#8217;ll be freely available as <em>PlayOcean Everywhere<\/em>, a\u00a0four-in-one mobile game (poker, roulette, bingo, and slots) that are\u00a0played for fun with in-game currency &#8212; while the player is on land.<\/p>\n<p>But when the player is out in international waters &#8212; on a Carnival cruise, for example &#8212; a second game app,\u00a0<em>PlayOcean Casino<\/em>, can be used to play the games while gambling with real money.<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears as though Carnival intends for players to be\u00a0aboard a Carnival ship in order\u00a0to make the switch, a notable (and presumably vital) requirement given how strict and varied gambling laws can be in different places around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carnival also plans to release\u00a0a bunch of other &#8220;in-person interactive experiences&#8221; (everything from a bar crawl\/poker mashup to a scavenger hunt)\u00a0which can only be played aboard select cruise ships, often with the aid of a mobile device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel company Carnival\u00a0announced this week that it&#8217;s launching a new suite of mobile games aimed at entertaining guests on its various cruise lines, either via in-person interactions (pictured) or good ol&#8217; gambling. What&#8217;s really interesting here is how these mobile casino games will work: they&#8217;ll be freely available as PlayOcean Everywhere, a\u00a0four-in-one mobile game (poker, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","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\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}