{"id":1304,"date":"2009-03-27T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T20:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2009-03-27T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T20:05:15","slug":"settlers-of-catan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/27\/settlers-of-catan\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlers of Catan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because my fellow podcasters hate it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gaming\/gamingreviews\/magazine\/17-04\/mf_settlers?currentPage=1\">doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t enjoy reading about it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Teuber created elaborate logic chains and probability matrices in a complex Excel spreadsheet so the videogame developers could see how every possible move and roll of the dice\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom the impact of the Robber to the odds of getting wheat in a given scenario\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcompared. The end result was a sort of blueprint for the game that gave Big Huge Games a head start and showed just how complex the underlying math was. &#8220;It was the biggest, gnarliest spreadsheet I had ever seen,&#8221; Reynolds says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because my fellow podcasters hate it doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t enjoy reading about it. Teuber created elaborate logic chains and probability matrices in a complex Excel spreadsheet so the videogame developers could see how every possible move and roll of the dice\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom the impact of the Robber to the odds of getting wheat in [&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":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-l2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"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=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}