{"id":153,"date":"2005-06-06T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2006-08-19T20:09:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T00:09:35","slug":"diplomacy-beta-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/06\/06\/diplomacy-beta-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomacy beta test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox has opened applications to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradoxplaza.com\/beta.asp\">beta test<\/a> their computer translation of <i>Diplomacy<\/i>. I am curious as to how they are going to make it work. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/pc\/strategy\/diplomacy2005\/screenindex.html\">initial placeholder artwork<\/a> in progress is pretty awful &#8211; at least I hope it is placeholder art.<\/p>\n<p>I am certainly anxious enough to consider applying myself, but, to maintain my objectivity when the time comes to preview\/review it, I&#8217;ve decided to forego applying. I have a minimal chance of success but if I were accepted to the beta test, the NDA would prohibit me from publishing gossip or rumors about how the game is progressing.<\/p>\n<p>Early word is that the game will focus on the negotiation phase. The screenshots look very much like traditional board game <i>Diplomacy<\/i>, but one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/pc\/strategy\/diplomacy2005\/screens.html?page=3\">shots call the map &#8220;default&#8221;<\/a>. This means that either there are a variety of map designs being considered for the final version or that the game will allow playing different variants of the game.<\/p>\n<p>You can unleash your inner Kissinger in November 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox has opened applications to beta test their computer translation of Diplomacy. I am curious as to how they are going to make it work. The initial placeholder artwork in progress is pretty awful &#8211; at least I hope it is placeholder art. I am certainly anxious enough to consider applying myself, but, to maintain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-2t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}