{"id":3947,"date":"2013-05-17T23:46:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T04:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2015-01-19T20:04:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:04:39","slug":"multiplayer-comes-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/2013\/05\/17\/multiplayer-comes-to-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiplayer Comes to Android!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/2012\/10\/29\/what-we%E2%80%99re-up-to\/\">promised<\/a>, multiplayer Osmos has come to Android!<\/p>\n<p>This is a <b>free<\/b> update, and includes 6 distinct arenas in which players can play against each other &#8212; both locally and online &#8212; in a mote-eat-mote absorption-fest of skill and strategy. This update also includes many audio\/visual improvements.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"\/images\/mp_banner_blog.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mp_banner_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Multiplayer Osmos\" title=\"Multiplayer Osmos\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Local play is supported over Wi-fi, and online multiplayer is supported via Google Play&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/games\/services\/\">Game Services<\/a>! (Osmos launched simultaneously with Google&#8217;s announcement a couple days ago, so no one can accuse us of twiddling our thumbs! ;-)) Players can share their achievements with their Google+ circles via this service as well.<\/p>\n<p>Multiplayer details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Play against your friends and enemies, locally or over the Internet.\n<li>6 distinct Arenas: Ambient, Impasse, Solar, Warped Chaos, Epicycles, and introducing\u2026 <em>Antimatter Impasse<\/em>.\n<li>18 new multiplayer achievements. (Along with a new single-player achievement.)\n<li>Optional handicap system to keep competition friendly. Be kind to young motes. :)\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what are you waiting for? <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.hemispheregames.osmos\">Go show<\/a> your friends who&#8217;s boss of the Blobiverse! We sincerely hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to the fine folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apportable.com\/\">Apportable<\/a> who did most of the &#8220;heavy lifting&#8221; in bringing multiplayer to Android. We couldn&#8217;t have done it without you! <3\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, multiplayer Osmos has come to Android! This is a free update, and includes 6 distinct arenas in which players can play against each other &#8212; both locally and online &#8212; in a mote-eat-mote absorption-fest of skill and strategy. This update also includes many audio\/visual improvements. Local play is supported over Wi-fi, and online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-multiplayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5C9wi-11F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4274,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}