{"id":835,"date":"2014-06-04T16:45:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cjohnson.id.au\/?p=657"},"modified":"2014-06-04T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:45:34","slug":"free-local-multiplayer-games-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/video-games\/free-local-multiplayer-games-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Local Multiplayer Games Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing that I really enjoy doing is playing through the batch of games that are developed as part of game jams such as Ludum Dare<\/a>. I usually sit down with my girlfriend and we take turns in trying out the different games. We also run through games listed on curated websites such as Free Indie Games<\/a> and the recently released games on portals such as Game Jolt<\/a>. When trolling through the list of games, those listed as local multiplayer games tend to stick because we both want to play.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately there aren’t any websites that just curate free, local multiplayer games which is why I created a small tumblr blog to do just this. It’s called Free Local Multiplayer<\/a> and was released a few weeks ago. I’m trying to regularly update the site with new games every week or so. The idea is to build a list of solid, enjoyable games that people can play together with a friend or at larger multiplayer parties. The spirit of playing games in a communal space with friends, strangers, family, partners or whoever is something that I think is definitely worth spreading.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

I wanted to create something that was vibrate and fun. The website needed to quickly get across the types of experiences people could have which is why I opted for the grid design with large cells. I ended up choosing to use tumblr and modified an existing theme. The selection of themes on tumblr is impressive with most themes looking fantastic. I was originally hoping to use animated gifs for each screenshot however I ran into issues related to CORS so I opted for static screens instead.<\/p>\n

All of the games posted are tweeted out at @FLMGames<\/a>. If you’re interested in helping me curate the website then feel free to get in touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing that I really enjoy doing is playing through the batch of games that are developed as part of game jams such as Ludum Dare. I usually sit down with my girlfriend and we take turns in trying out the different games. We also run through games listed on curated websites such as Free […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}