{"id":247,"date":"2005-09-20T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2006-08-18T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T21:13:09","slug":"strength-and-honour-finally-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/20\/strength-and-honour-finally-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength and Honour finally out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After at least two years of development &#8211; it was an entry in the IGF in 2004 &#8211; Magitech&#8217;s ancient strategy game <i>Strength and Honour<\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezgame.com\/buy.htm\">available in North America<\/a>. They had trouble securing a publisher in Canada and the US, despite selling the game to publishers in Australia, Poland, China, Russia, Spain and Italy. Did I mention that Magitech is a Canadian company? That explains the spelling of &#8220;honour&#8221; if not the trouble they had getting the game on shevles.<\/p>\n<p><i>Strength and Honour<\/i> is only available directly from the company, and for the standard retail game price of $49.99. That&#8217;s a lot of money for a game they couldn&#8217;t get anyone to publish, but not completely out of line.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised that Matrix Games, a reliable and devoted ally of small and solo developers didn&#8217;t get their hands on this game. They certainly would have helped get the word out. Gamespot didn&#8217;t mention the change in status. Nor did Gamespy. Nor IGN.<\/p>\n<p>To help my countrymen along, here&#8217;s my little bit to remind those of you that have already forgotten about this game. Once I get my hands on a copy, I&#8217;ll pass along my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After at least two years of development &#8211; it was an entry in the IGF in 2004 &#8211; Magitech&#8217;s ancient strategy game Strength and Honour is available in North America. They had trouble securing a publisher in Canada and the US, despite selling the game to publishers in Australia, Poland, China, Russia, Spain and Italy. [&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-3Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}