{"id":6914,"date":"2025-03-09T20:52:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6914"},"modified":"2025-03-09T20:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:52:44","slug":"nyt-releases-crumbl-the-game-where-you-watch-your-life-crumble-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/nyt-releases-crumbl-the-game-where-you-watch-your-life-crumble-away\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Releases Crumbl: \u201cThe Game Where You Watch Your Life Crumble Away\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the success of online games like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wordle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connections<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has released their newest project, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crumbl<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cthe game where you watch your life crumble away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s simple\u201d, said NYT game developer Bill Squat. \u201cWe take all of our users\u2019 personal data\u2014name, address, height, weight, race, ethnicity, date of birth, star sign [\u2026] and favorite Jonas Brother\u2014to create a gameplay experience tailored to each user. We wanted to provide our loyal subscribers a one-of-a-kind experience: the chance to pinpoint the exact second where their life turned to shit. Playtesters are blown away, and have walked away with a profound sense of hopelessness as they realize how bad they fucked up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shady Deale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">r reporter was given early access to test the game. \u201cIt\u2019s a truly harrowing experience, and not even in a good way,\u201d said the chickenshit staffer who wished to remain anonymous. \u201cIt really punctures the blissful ignorance and impossible hope that things could get better. It forces you to confront the cold light of day and accept your miserable little fate for what it is. Why did I make any of the decisions I did? What the fuck have I done with myself. Why did I decide to write for this stupid publication? I can\u2019t wait to play again tomorrow!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The game is projected to attract thousands of new users to the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 games, none of whom have ever read any of their articles. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crumbl <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will reset daily with a new puzzle at 3:00 am, right as you go to bed. It will now take users around 30 minutes to complete all of the Times games \u2013 45 minutes if they really fucked up.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We wanted to provide our loyal subscribers a one-of-a-kind experience: the chance to pinpoint the exact second where their life turned to shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":6915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-off-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6916,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions\/6916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}