{"id":15238,"date":"2025-09-17T18:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15238"},"modified":"2025-09-16T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:20:10","slug":"yelling-fireball-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15238","title":{"rendered":"Yelling FIREBALL! for real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_ekugPKqFw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to capture the magic of LARPing? The $3 indie game <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3716600\/Mage_Arena\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3716600\/Mage_Arena\/\">Mage Arena<\/a> is shooting up the Steam charts. Make a lobby of up to eight players, divide into Wizards and Warlocks, and start yelling &#8220;FireBall!&#8221;, &#8220;Freeze!&#8221;, and &#8220;Magic Missile!&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game is voice controlled. You speak your spells &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/steams-latest-mini-hit-is-mage-arena-a-voice-powered-spellcasting-game-that-costs-usd3\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/steams-latest-mini-hit-is-mage-arena-a-voice-powered-spellcasting-game-that-costs-usd3\/\">reviewers say it works really well<\/a> &#8211; which is a nice change of pace from many voice controlled games that often have a&#8230;less than perfect voice recognition hit rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mechanics are comical. Fireballs hit like localized nukes or obliterate the caster if they&#8217;re land too close. A direct freeze spell hit turns your friend into a hilarious block of ice while you ready a magic missile barrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BxrjJc48VsE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to capture the magic of LARPing? The $3 indie game Mage Arena is shooting up the Steam charts. Make a lobby of up to eight players, divide into Wizards and Warlocks, and start yelling &#8220;FireBall!&#8221;, &#8220;Freeze!&#8221;, and &#8220;Magic Missile!&#8221; The game is voice controlled. You speak your spells &#8211; and reviewers say it works really well &#8211; which is a nice change of pace from many voice controlled games that often have a&#8230;less than perfect voice recognition hit rate&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15238\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3XM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15239,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions\/15239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}