{"id":18,"date":"2007-04-24T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/service-down-time-to-play.html"},"modified":"2007-04-24T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T12:08:00","slug":"service-down-time-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/service-down-time-to-play.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Service down&quot; = &quot;time to play&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_0W9lPURnTVs\/Ri364-4IqNI\/AAAAAAAAADM\/eihmd9EdE7E\/s1600-h\/crazyegggame.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_0W9lPURnTVs\/Ri364-4IqNI\/AAAAAAAAADM\/eihmd9EdE7E\/s400\/crazyegggame.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056973813465000146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crazyegg.com\/\">CrazyEgg<\/a> keeps  it fun  even in bad situations. Their  &#8220;service down&#8221; page features a  mini Flash game,  to divert your attention and anger while you are waiting for the services to come back.  <\/p>\n<p>Spicing the mundane system error pages with jokes has become a good tradition for web-20. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.365questions.org\/2007\/04\/10\/who-has-the-best-sorry-page\/\">Here is a good blog about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What sets this example apart is that the game is custom-branded. And, since the chance of seeing it should be pretty low (ideally), the users may appreciate that extra time CrazyEgg puts in such things.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in Flash games, or are looking for game engines to brand them for your site, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/\">www.theoworlds.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CrazyEgg keeps it fun even in bad situations. Their &#8220;service down&#8221; page features a mini Flash game, to divert your attention and anger while you are waiting for the services to come back. Spicing the mundane system error pages with jokes has become a good tradition for web-20. Here is a good blog about it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-flash-games","7":"category-web-20"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoworlds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}