{"id":1836,"date":"2009-10-13T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T18:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2009-10-13T13:37:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T18:37:01","slug":"simmars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/13\/simmars\/","title":{"rendered":"SimMars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love lost games. I&#8217;ve written before about a few of them &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/02\/06\/games-that-never-were-pantheon\/\">Pantheon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/20\/games-that-never-were-sid-meiers-dinosaurs\/\">Dinosaurs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/06\/05\/games-that-never-were-twilyt-productions\/\">Zulu Wars<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fidgit.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/see_the_mars_colonization_game.php\">So the recent &#8220;discovery&#8221; of a SimMars<\/a> being developed by Maxis around the time that The Sims became job one is very cool. The domination of The Sims as a franchise and cash cow has a real risk of obscuring how experimental Maxis was at its best. There are, of course, no guarantees that SimMars would have been anything interesting. But it&#8217;s nice to know that it once existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love lost games. I&#8217;ve written before about a few of them &#8211; Pantheon, Dinosaurs, Zulu Wars&#8230; So the recent &#8220;discovery&#8221; of a SimMars being developed by Maxis around the time that The Sims became job one is very cool. The domination of The Sims as a franchise and cash cow has a real risk [&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":[78,86],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5GFeQ-simmars","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836"}],"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=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}