{"id":2,"date":"2006-08-15T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-16T19:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T00:44:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/15\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Troy S. Goodfellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Flash of Steel<\/em><\/strong> is the blog of Troy S. Goodfellow. That&#8217;s me. I wroteabout computer games in one place or another from 2000 to 2010 with a focus on historical strategy games. This blog has that same focus, but will also deal with other gaming issues as they arise. In 2011, I accepted a position with Evolve PR, and that complicated a few things, but the blog continues.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Canada, living in America, and I have far too many degrees that I am not using. I wrote for a ton of different places, most notably Computer Games Magazine, Games for Windows Magazine, 1up, Gamespy, Crispy Gamer, Gameshark and finally, PCGamer as their strategy columnist.<\/p>\n<p>The banner up top was designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phobe.com\/\">Jennifer Sparks<\/a>. She does amazing work.<\/p>\n<p>A portfolio of my published work is linked up top. This strategy games blog started as <em>Portico<\/em> on blogspot, so if the content looks familiar, that&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>I contributed to 2k Games&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F2K-710425310744-Meiers-Civilization-Chronicles%2Fdp%2FB000IU1PQA%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1174236999%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Civilization Chronicles<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> compilation pack in 2006, writing the history of the beloved franchise and conducting interviews with major players in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Why &#8220;flash of steel&#8221;? The phrase itself comes from Sikh Guru Gobind Singh who writes:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>When all efforts to restore peace<br \/>\nProve useless and no words avail<br \/>\nLawful is the flash of steel then<br \/>\nAnd right it is the sword to hail.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A reasonable philosophy I think. And since most strategy and war games assume that words will be to little avail (or have already proven useless), the steel flashes quite a bit, be it the steel of a sword or a bayonet or a grenade launcher.<\/p>\n<p>Have a tip? A request? An opinion you want to share? A job for me to do?<\/p>\n<p>Contact me at troy.goodfellow AT gmail DOT com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash of Steel is the blog of Troy S. Goodfellow. That&#8217;s me. I wroteabout computer games in one place or another from 2000 to 2010 with a focus on historical strategy games. This blog has that same focus, but will also deal with other gaming issues as they arise. In 2011, I accepted a position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5GFeQ-about","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2"}],"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=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}