{"id":1684,"date":"2009-08-11T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2009-08-11T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T18:01:06","slug":"1998-age-of-empires-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/11\/1998-age-of-empires-post-mortem\/","title":{"rendered":"1998 Age of Empires Post Mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game, Set, Watch is one of my favorite blogs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2009\/08\/the_game_developer_archives_postmortem_ensembles_age_of_em.php\">this old post mortem is another reason why.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We played our own game.  While this may sound simple, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very important. Throughout the development process, every person in the company not only play tested, but played AoE with the purpose of having fun. As a result, we were very in tune with why the game was fun, and what people were likely to get out of it. We had 20 guys who were determined not to let the game play be compromised or watered down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game, Set, Watch is one of my favorite blogs and this old post mortem is another reason why. We played our own game. While this may sound simple, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very important. Throughout the development process, every person in the company not only play tested, but played AoE with the purpose of having fun. As a [&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":[9,59],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-ra","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"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=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}