{"id":2414,"date":"2010-05-10T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T18:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2010-05-10T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T18:46:42","slug":"hegemony-philip-of-macedon-actually-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/10\/hegemony-philip-of-macedon-actually-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegemony: Philip of Macedon Actually Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/05\/developer-interview-jim-mcnally\/\">I interviewed Longbow Digital Arts&#8217; lead designer Jim McNally four years ago.<\/a> Last week, I was joking with one of my Toronto based friends that she should storm their office and demand information on why it wasn&#8217;t done.<\/p>\n<p>McNally sent me an email this morning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbowgames.com\/hegemony\/\">tell me it was done<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just completed the demo and I am really looking forward to playing more of the game. It has an interesting way of keeping you on task &#8211; almost intrusive in its insistence that it can help you finish objectives. The economy still doesn&#8217;t make perfect sense to me and the fine art of using my forces in a tactical chess match is still being worked out.<\/p>\n<p>But the strategic map? A thing of beauty. You zoom out and see a parchment map of the Aegean. Zoom in a little closer and you see cities and structures and armies like you would on a board game. Closer still and you see your armies and workers and supply carts. Until I play the full the game and see how everything fits together in real time at a more complex stage of the game, I won&#8217;t have any firm statement on it.<\/p>\n<p>Still. An ancients game. You knew I&#8217;d plug it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed Longbow Digital Arts&#8217; lead designer Jim McNally four years ago. Last week, I was joking with one of my Toronto based friends that she should storm their office and demand information on why it wasn&#8217;t done. McNally sent me an email this morning to tell me it was done. I&#8217;ve just completed the [&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":[12,62],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-CW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414"}],"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=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}