{"id":1242,"date":"2011-04-08T12:12:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2011-04-09T02:18:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T02:18:06","slug":"4th-and-batterys-first-game-rejected-by-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"4th and Battery&#8217;s First Game Rejected By Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mere few days ago we reported the launch of\u00c2\u00a0Popcap&#8217;s &#8220;experimental&#8221; label&#8211; 4th\u00c2\u00a0and Battery.\u00c2\u00a0 The spinoff studio announced its first title, Unpleasant Horse, in the same press release. According to a Tweet by the new-fangled studio, Unpleasant Horse is a little<em> too <\/em>unpleasant for the app store.<\/p>\n<p>Unpleasant Horse, a game that looked to &#8220;feature the titular unpleasant horse, who sports wings and advances through the levels by destroying birds and landing on top of other horses, sending them into a perpetual meat grinder below for points and special bonuses&#8221; was supposed to launch for free sometime in April.\u00c2\u00a0 Apple rejected the application almost immeditely because of mature content.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/image_game-thumb-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bit harsh?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe. Why not just slap a 17+ rating on the application and call it a day?\u00c2\u00a0 Regardless, 4th and Battery has attempted to\u00c2\u00a0calm\u00c2\u00a0enthusiasts with a followup tweet.<\/p>\n<p>While no official statements have been made by Popcap or\u00c2\u00a04th and Battery\u00c2\u00a0the dev&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0tweet is\u00c2\u00a0certainly clear&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0even if the fate of Unpleasant Horse is not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mere few days ago we reported the launch of\u00c2\u00a0Popcap&#8217;s &#8220;experimental&#8221; label&#8211; 4th\u00c2\u00a0and Battery.\u00c2\u00a0 The spinoff studio announced its first title, Unpleasant Horse, in the same press release. According to a Tweet by the new-fangled studio, Unpleasant Horse is a little too unpleasant for the app store. Unpleasant Horse, a game that looked to &#8220;feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}