{"id":109,"date":"2019-07-20T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/?p=109"},"modified":"2019-07-27T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T17:28:22","slug":"magicduel-a-different-sort-of-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/109\/magicduel-a-different-sort-of-game\/","title":{"rendered":"MagicDuel – A different sort of game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today I have written a short piece about a game I play and program for from time to time, MagicDuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Many years ago I found a small website<\/a> that had great hand drawn artwork of a creature pulling something out of a box, inviting you to guess what was inside it. The game was apparently still being designed and would need beta testers. I attempted guessing what was inside “the password to the game” and bookmarked the site. Later on it turned out that i was the second closest to the right answer of “the game”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Months later I found the site again in my bookmarks, and joined the forum and its small community. At that time I was the 19th account. Here the creator posted screenshots of the game and we discussed its plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I left the game for a time as it was still not playable and once again found it in my bookmarks and visited the site. This time the game was playable and I was the 40th account on the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being able to talk to the developer of the game and discuss plans was some of the fun for me, we shaped our game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long story short, I opened my first account\u00a0 6th July 2007 and am still playing to this day. Many things have changed and in that time I have went from a player, to forum mod, to live helper, to forum administrator, to running most of the games websites, and now I program for it from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try it out, Come talk to me ingame, its shaped around the players, because we run it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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