{"id":183,"date":"2015-10-08T00:48:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T00:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magiteker.com\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=183"},"modified":"2015-10-24T08:16:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T08:16:16","slug":"blast-orbz","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/magiteker.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/blast-orbz\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast Orbz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/magiteker.com\/?attachment_id=123\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magiteker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BlastOrbz2.png?fit=832%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"832,520\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"BlastOrbz2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magiteker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BlastOrbz2.png?fit=832%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magiteker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BlastOrbz2.png?resize=300%2C188&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BlastOrbz2\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/>Blast Orbz is a billiards style puzzle game. The player must collide colored balls into each other in order to eliminate them. The faster the player eliminates the balls the better their score will be. Players scores are saved using Google Play leader boards. This is currently free for download on <a id=\"6DCF228A-8C4E-444A-94E0-E9C4C7EA33FC\" class=\"w-link-new-window\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.magiteker.BlastOrbz\">Google Play<\/a> and is my first published game on the Android market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blast Orbz is a billiards style puzzle game. The player must collide colored balls into each other in order to eliminate them. The faster the player eliminates the balls the better their score will be. Players scores are saved using Google Play leader boards. This is currently free for download on Google Play and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"jetpack-portfolio-type":[22,38],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[36,35,37],"class_list":["post-183","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jetpack-portfolio-type-android","jetpack-portfolio-type-project","jetpack-portfolio-tag-android","jetpack-portfolio-tag-project","jetpack-portfolio-tag-unity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":344,"url":"https:\/\/magiteker.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/book-of-math\/","url_meta":{"origin":183,"position":0},"title":"Book of Math","author":"Frank O'Hanlon","date":"October 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Book of Math is a game where the player uses their math skills to attack and defend. 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