{"id":4267,"date":"2015-02-13T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2015-02-13T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:25:25","slug":"grand-theft-auto-a-certain-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2015\/02\/13\/grand-theft-auto-a-certain-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto: a certain romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Report by Bethan Perry<\/h6>\n<p>THE Grand Theft Auto video game franchise is not often associated with romance, but one Cardiff woman has incorporated the game into her Valentine\u2019s Day plans.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4269 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BP_GTA3-e1423829165741-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"BP_GTA3\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4269 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BP_GTA3-e1423829165741-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"BP_GTA3\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\nFfion Jukes, 25, from Riverside was struggling to think of gift ideas for her boyfriend Jacob Ford, when she came up with the idea of a surprise scavenger-hunt based on Grand Theft Auto V.<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s absolutely obsessed with Grand Theft Auto, he spends most of his time playing it,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re not really a soppy Valentine\u2019s Day sort of couple so when the idea crossed my mind in work, I knew it was perfect.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the game, players can collect parts of letter scraps to solve a mystery as well as parts of UFOs. Miss Jukes has bought a Lego spaceship and is planning on breaking it up into pieces and hiding them around Riverside in little boxes, for her valentine to find.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m going to write clues and instructions on how to assemble the spaceship on letter scraps. I\u2019ll add these to the pieces of Lego and if all goes well he\u2019ll manage to put it all together. \u201cHe\u2019s a total nerd for UFOs, aliens and space so when I found out there was a spaceship in the game it all came together.\u201d<br \/>\nMiss Jukes got help from a friend to design a map of Cardiff set out in the style of the map players receive when they buy Grand Theft Auto V. \u201cIt\u2019s really cool, I\u2019m really happy with the way the map turned out. I don\u2019t play GTA, I\u2019m more of a Metal Gear Solid kind of girl, so I had to enlist help of someone I work with to make sense of the symbols and key.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BP_GTA1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4268 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BP_GTA1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"BP_GTA1\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4268 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BP_GTA1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"BP_GTA1\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>Despite claims the couple are not the soppy type, she is not sure the couple can avoid being romantic entirely. \u201cI will probably write something soppy on one of the letters. Nothing too lovey-dovey but certainly something a bit cheesy.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re both really nerdy and as soon as he started talking about zombie movies and video games, I knew we would hit it off.\u201d<br \/>\nHe knows nothing about Miss Jukes\u2019 plans and she\u2019s hoping she will be able to keep it that way&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been so excited planning this, it\u2019s been really hard not to blurt it out. I can\u2019t wait to see his face on Saturday. I\u2019m just going to leave the map on the bed and leave him to it.<br \/>\n&#8220;If all goes to plan I\u2019m going to come home to a happy boyfriend who has a new spaceship and I will gain a million Brownie points.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report by Bethan Perry THE Grand Theft Auto video game franchise is not often associated with romance, but one Cardiff woman has incorporated the game into her Valentine\u2019s Day plans. 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