{"id":153,"date":"2014-11-11T17:59:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T23:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-11-11T17:59:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T23:59:28","slug":"10000-league-of-legends-matches-all-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"10,000 League of Legends matches, all at once"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><b>10,000 League of Legends matches, all at once<\/b><br \/>\nBy Nathan Yau<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1tnDPW1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"League of Legends gameplay\" class=\"attachment-medium wp-post-image\" height=\"620\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1vlVZay\" width=\"620\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>League of Legends is an online, free-to-play game that pits two teams of five against each other. The goal is to destroy the other team&#8217;s structures. <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/ZyjI9X\">The New York Times mapped 10,000 matches, played by 100,000 players<\/a>, showing player movements over a quick thirty seconds. <\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;d expect, you see a lot of battles in the middle of the field and if you play the game, you&#8217;re likely to recognize the paths that people usually take. The best part is the character breakouts that show how certain &#8220;champions&#8221; move about.<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of the point cloud that shows <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/UcFHIV\">over 11 million deaths in Just Cause 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1vlVZaB\" rel=\"tag\">gaming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1wqZkC1\" rel=\"tag\">League of Legends<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/VmXKVo\" rel=\"tag\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>October 13, 2014 at 02:21AM<br \/>\nvia FlowingData http:\/\/ift.tt\/1tnDPW1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10,000 League of Legends matches, all at once By Nathan Yau League of Legends is an online, free-to-play game that pits two teams of five against each other. The goal is to destroy the other team&#8217;s structures. The New York &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/?p=153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}