{"id":3461,"date":"2011-03-29T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T23:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2011-03-29T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T01:48:08","slug":"putty-squad-behind-the-scenes-in-gamestm-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=3461","title":{"rendered":"Putty Squad Behind the Scenes in GamesTM 107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of last month&#8217;s <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=3325\" target=\"new\">Gabriel Knight feature<\/a>, I have another article in the latest issue of GamesTM. This one is a behind-the-scenes look at Putty Squad, an Amiga platformer that was almost released in 1994, then shelved at the last minute&mdash;but not before a whole bunch of Amiga magazines got their hands on review copies and praised it to high heaven. It&#8217;s an interesting story, and one I knew nothing about until the opportunity arose to write this article.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2011\/puttysquad.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>It also happens to be a story that has a happy ending, since after all these years on the shelf, Putty Squad is going to be released for iPhone, iPad, PSP, and PS3 in the near future. I&#8217;m planning to check it out on my iPod Touch when the time comes. You can learn more about the game and release plans at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.system3.com\/\" target=\"new\">developer&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article appears in GamesTM issue 107, which is on sale now in the UK and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/magazines\/gamestm\/gamestm-issue-107.html\" target=\"new\">online<\/a>. Sadly the nearby Borders that carries the magazine is closing due to bankruptcy restructuring, so I can&#8217;t say if it&#8217;s available yet in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of last month&#8217;s Gabriel Knight feature, I have another article in the latest issue of GamesTM. This one is a behind-the-scenes look at Putty Squad, an Amiga platformer that was almost released in 1994, then shelved at the last minute&mdash;but not before a whole bunch of Amiga magazines got their hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-writing","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}