{"id":576788,"date":"2022-12-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/576788\/"},"modified":"2022-12-24T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T14:00:00","slug":"what-killed-the-temple-run-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/576788\/","title":{"rendered":"What Killed the Temple Run Franchise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"What Killed the Temple Run Franchise?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-KfU_oLjpZw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTemple Run is the main game that popularized the 3D endless runner, yet many seem to ignore it in flavor of it&#8217;s more popular competitor, Subway Surfers. Today I&#8217;ll be going through the history of Imangi Studios, the company behind Temple Run, to find out what series of decisions have led to the current state of this beloved series.<\/p>\n<p>Second Channel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=By29fmSwr18&#038;t=152s<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/T3rr0r626<\/p>\n<p>TIMESTAMPS:<br \/>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/>\n0:00 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n1:33 &#8211; Canabalt<br \/>\n2:35 &#8211; Imangi Studios<br \/>\n3:00 &#8211; Temple Run<br \/>\n3:54 &#8211; Subway Surfers<br \/>\n5:00 &#8211; Sequels and Spin-Offs<br \/>\n9:04 &#8211; The Fall<br \/>\n9:34 &#8211; Answers &#038; Conclusion<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nMusic Used (In Order)<\/p>\n<p>Bad Dudes &#8211; Super Dodgeball &#8211; abstractions of rain (versus)<br \/>\nBUGSEED &#8211; COSMIC BLUES<br \/>\nTobacco &#8211; 12 Backwoods Altar<br \/>\nTemple Run Theme<br \/>\nWCEP &#8211; Business Day (inst)<br \/>\nSubway Surfers Theme<br \/>\nMF DOOM &#8211; Doomsday (inst)<br \/>\nButterfly Kiss &#8211; Persona 5<br \/>\nOn the Hunt &#8211; Gloomy Manor (inst) &#8211; SSBU<br \/>\nMJ &#8211; Billie Jean (Genisis ver)<br \/>\nGraze the Roof &#8211; PvZ<br \/>\nVibes &#8211; cramped skunkman<br \/>\nReimagine: The Game &#8211; Intermissionary Position<br \/>\nUndertale OST &#8211; here we are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temple Run is the main game that popularized the 3D endless runner, yet many seem to ignore it in flavor of it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":576789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216521],"tags":[2059,218577,235819,235821,126889,235816,235822,235811,235815,11841,5380,60500,48399,22925,235825,11716,6696,207665,20571,235812,23629,69449,168918,74927,235823,191783,204623,235817,235813,2234,235818,235814,226653,54718,235826,235820,235810,235809,188767,197877,235824,19743,34608,216560,216561],"class_list":{"0":"post-576788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile-games","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-angry-birds","10":"tag-angry-birds-epic","11":"tag-bad-piggies","12":"tag-bloons","13":"tag-btd-6","14":"tag-cut-the-rope","15":"tag-danerade","16":"tag-downfall","17":"tag-ea","18":"tag-electronic-arts","19":"tag-flash","20":"tag-free-games","21":"tag-history","22":"tag-imangi","23":"tag-indie-game","24":"tag-ios","25":"tag-joke","26":"tag-meme","27":"tag-milkman-steve","28":"tag-mobile","29":"tag-mobile-games","30":"tag-nom","31":"tag-om","32":"tag-om-nom","33":"tag-peggle","34":"tag-plants-vs-zombies","35":"tag-popcap","36":"tag-pvz","37":"tag-review","38":"tag-ripoffs","39":"tag-rise-and-fall","40":"tag-rovio","41":"tag-satire","42":"tag-subway-surfers","43":"tag-sunnyv2","44":"tag-t2rr0r","45":"tag-t3rr0r","46":"tag-temple-run","47":"tag-tower-defence","48":"tag-zeptolab","49":"tag-zombies","50":"tag-zuma","51":"tag-216560","52":"tag-216561"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}