{"id":1115,"date":"2008-12-05T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T16:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/05\/bruce-shelley-a-hall-of-famer\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T16:43:50","slug":"bruce-shelley-a-hall-of-famer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/05\/bruce-shelley-a-hall-of-famer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Shelley a Hall of Famer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/news\/index.php\/2008-12-05\/bruce-shelley-gets-aias-hall-of-fame-nod\/\">Couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer guy.<\/a> I spoke to Mr. Shelley a few weeks ago, and <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/11\/age-of-empires-1997\/\">he was very generous with his time when I was writing my series on ancient games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of the twelve inductees, six have reputations in the strategy game arena &#8211; Meier, Wright, Molyneux, Bunten, Morhaime and now Shelley. The genre has declined, relatively speaking, as new genres and platforms have taken hold of a mass audience. So eventually the raft of big strategy names from the 80s and 90s will fade.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s enjoy while we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer guy. I spoke to Mr. Shelley a few weeks ago, and he was very generous with his time when I was writing my series on ancient games. Of the twelve inductees, six have reputations in the strategy game arena &#8211; Meier, Wright, Molyneux, Bunten, Morhaime and now Shelley. The genre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,59],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-hZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}