{"id":52,"date":"2017-04-26T17:12:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:35:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T03:35:23","slug":"11-reasons-why-i-love-orbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/26\/11-reasons-why-i-love-orbits\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Reasons Why I love &#8220;Orbits&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I released\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/friends\/orbits_game\"><em>Orbits<\/em><\/a> last week as part of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/friends\/cover\">The Friends Issue<\/a><\/em>, and I love it. You should probably stop reading this blog post and just go play it instead, but since you&#8217;re here, let me tell you some reasons\u00a0<em>why<\/em> I love\u00a0<em>Orbits<\/em> so much.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FinalGif.gif\" alt=\"Cartoon stars spinning around a cartoon planet\" width=\"357\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No instructions necessary! The title screen serves as a perfect tutorial.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s enough hidden gameplay to make it replayable. On some of my games, I feel like you play through them once and you&#8217;ve got it. With\u00a0<em>Orbits,<\/em> it&#8217;ll probably take a few times to plumb all the depths, and I love that.<\/li>\n<li>My senior of college, for my and a friend&#8217;s birthday, we went to a gong bath at a nearby Zen center. I had no idea what a gong bath was, and it was exciting. We had to drive <em>off-campus!\u00a0<\/em>Rare!\u00a0I loved it.\u00a0I\u00a0slept through the entire thing.\u00a0<em>Orbits<\/em> reminds me of that.<\/li>\n<li>The depth effect in the star-field. It was a total last-minute addition, and it worked out great.<\/li>\n<li>The color of your planet is one of my favorite colors by itself, and I especially love how it looks against the background.<\/li>\n<li>Even with no &#8220;goal&#8221; or score, the ending feels satisfying.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the color scheme is completely randomized each time, yet it still feels cohesive.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s more sound design in\u00a0<em>Orbits<\/em> than in probably any other game for Wide Open Games so far. It feels like growth for me in that respect.<\/li>\n<li><em>Orbits\u00a0<\/em>isn&#8217;t too long, and it isn&#8217;t too short, either.<\/li>\n<li>The game says what I want it to say.<\/li>\n<li>The game has no words.<\/li>\n<li><em>Orbits\u00a0<\/em>is relaxing to play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s why I love\u00a0<em>Orbits<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/friends\/orbits_game\">Give it a go yourself<\/a> and let me know what <em>you<\/em> think of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I released\u00a0Orbits last week as part of The Friends Issue, and I love it. You should probably stop reading this blog post and just go play it instead, but since you&#8217;re here, let me tell you some reasons\u00a0why I love\u00a0Orbits so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[14,15,25,7,54,53],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-friends","tag-friendship","tag-game-development","tag-gamedev","tag-videogames","tag-wide-open-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}