{"id":38,"date":"2008-08-17T18:57:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T23:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-08-17T18:57:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T23:57:56","slug":"more-spirits-updates-the-pattern-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"More Spirits Updates: the Pattern Mode."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another new mode in Spirits of Metropolis&#8230;this time, it&#8217;s a look at the Pattern mode. Woo!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s where the gameplay changes a bit from the previous modes I&#8217;ve shown. Instead of focusing on points and multipliers, it&#8217;s all about the strategy. Patterns (the little squares circling around some of the gems in the pic below) have appeared on the board, and you have to clear them all using multiplier combos within the pattern itself. Basically, you must steer your combos to the patterns&#8230;and sometimes it&#8217;ll take more than one turn to do so (harder difficulty levels in this mode actually give you just <b>one<\/b> turn to do just that, so enjoy the easy difficulty while you can!).<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/images\/sofmpattern1.png\" rel=\"lightbox[ONR2]\" title=\"Because the focus is on strategy instead of points in Pattern mode, the levels will usually be much more intimate (ie smaller).\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/images\/sofmpattern1.png\" vspace=\"15\" width=\"412\" border=\"0\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--\u2013start_raw\u2013--><br \/>\n<br?><!--\u2013end_raw\u2013--><br \/>\nIf this isn&#8217;t somehow crystal clear by now (hah, not likely) then check out this new vid, and a new song while I&#8217;m at it: <center><br \/>\n<!--start_raw--><br \/>\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/mediaplayer.swf\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"height=320&amp;width=400&amp;file=http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/sofmpatterngameplay.flv&amp;image=http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/images\/sofmpatternflash.jpg&amp;backcolor=0x000000&amp;frontcolor=0xAAAAAA&amp;lightcolor=0xFFFFFF&amp;screencolor=0x000000\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\"><\/embed><br \/>\n<!--end_raw--><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nStay with the blog for more Spirits updates, and I do recommend watching this site closely in the next week or so. There *might* be a nice surprise if you do. \ud83d\ude42<\/br?><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another new mode in Spirits of Metropolis&#8230;this time, it&#8217;s a look at the Pattern mode. Woo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-maker","category-spirits-of-metropolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}