{"id":6174,"date":"2009-09-04T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6174"},"modified":"2009-09-04T09:35:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T16:35:02","slug":"bottlerocket-entertainment-fizzles-and-pops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6174","title":{"rendered":"BottleRocket Entertainment Fizzles And Pops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/bottlerocket.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/bottlerocket.jpg','popup','width=267,height=612,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/bottlerocket-tm.jpg\" height=\"229\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bottlerocket\" \/><\/a><strong>Jay Beard<\/strong>, founder of the <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>-based video gaming developer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bottlerocket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BottleRocket Entertainment<\/a><\/strong> announced that he is shuttering the business, according to a post on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/bottlerocket-closes-its-doors\" target=\"_blank\">GameIndustry.biz<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an email to friends, sent to GamesIndustry.biz, Beard wrote of his disappointment at the predicament, but noted that he was currently building a new studio &#8220;from the ground up&#8221;. . . &#8220;It is with deep regret that I have to inform you of the closure of BottleRocket,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;After fighting to keep the doors open for the past six months we have decided to close and move on. . . &#8220;BottleRocket was in business for seven years and I feel that we developed a sound reputation for quality and creativity. I was once told that we &#8216;zigged while others zagged,&#8217; and I like to think that we shall be remembered this way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully, Beard gets the new things rolling soon. <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> is loaded with video game talent <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/bottlerocket-closes-its-doors\" target=\"_blank\">GameIndustry.biz<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/once-splatterhouse-developer-bottlerocket-closes-147527.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">Destructoid<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Beard, founder of the Carlsbadistan-based video gaming developer BottleRocket Entertainment announced that he is shuttering the business, according to a post on GameIndustry.biz. In an email to friends, sent to GamesIndustry.biz, Beard wrote of his disappointment at the predicament, but noted that he was currently building a new studio &#8220;from the ground up&#8221;. . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}