{"id":177,"date":"2005-11-18T22:28:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T22:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2006-01-31T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T16:36:02","slug":"another-idea-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/18\/another-idea-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Another idea gone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Happy Soccer Boss\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/upload\/hsb.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWell today has ended on a real downer! Over 5 years ago Fergus McNeill and I designed a game<a href=\"http:\/\/www.happysoccerboss.com\"> Happy Soccer Boss <\/a>&#8211; it&#8217;s a football game with a difference. There are a number of special things about it that I don&#8217;t want to go into here, mainly because they are still &#8220;secret&#8221; and the other is that we have a patent pending on part of it. However, a big premis of the game still revolves around football, and a particular way the football is played. It has a lot to do with powerups, 5 aside, special moves, cute characters, and much much more&#8230;<br \/>\nOver the last 5 years we&#8217;ve hawked it around to pretty much everyone who is anyone in the games industry, and everyone has loved it&#8230; just not enough to sign us to develop it. And because we can&#8217;t afford to just develop it ourselves, it&#8217;s been one of theose projects sitting on the sides waiting for us to get the chance to do it.<br \/>\nTonight I saw an advert for Super Mario Smash Football on the TV&#8230; and it&#8217;s pretty much Happy Soccer Boss; a quick search online for some pictures, and the confirmation looks like it&#8217;s there&#8230; Smash Football looks to me like Happy Soccer Boss &#8211; I&#8217;m gutted!<br \/>\nThis is not the first time this has happened to me, but it is definatley the most annoying!<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Mario Smash Football\" title=\"Mario Smash Football\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Mario%20Smash%20Football\" rel=\"tag\" >Mario Smash Football<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Super Mario Strikers\" title=\"Super Mario Strikers\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Super%20Mario%20Strikers\" rel=\"tag\" >Super Mario Strikers<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Happy Soccer Boss\" title=\"Happy Soccer Boss\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Happy%20Soccer%20Boss\" rel=\"tag\" >Happy Soccer Boss<\/a><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Mario Smash Football\" title=\"Mario Smash Football\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mario%20Smash%20Football\">Mario Smash Football<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Super Mario Strikers\" title=\"Super Mario Strikers\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super%20Mario%20Strikers\">Super Mario Strikers<\/a>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well today has ended on a real downer! Over 5 years ago Fergus McNeill and I designed a game Happy Soccer Boss &#8211; it&#8217;s a football game with a difference. There are a number of special things about it that I don&#8217;t want to go into here, mainly because they are still &#8220;secret&#8221; and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/18\/another-idea-gone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another idea gone&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-2R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}