{"id":425,"date":"2006-09-08T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/08\/history-of-rts-continued\/"},"modified":"2006-09-08T17:16:40","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T21:16:40","slug":"history-of-rts-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/08\/history-of-rts-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"History of RTS Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polycat.net\/1202\">The second part<\/a> of Trent Polack&#8217;s history of Real Time Strategy is up. In it he once again echoes some of my thinking on the real time tactical games that don&#8217;t have base building or resource management, classifying them as an evolution of the RTS, but along a different path. I think the break is less significant than he implies, but I would not put <em>Sid Meier&#8217;s Gettysburg<\/em> or <em>Myth<\/em> in this evolution since they are, to my mind, simply wargames with some RTS interface similarities. Both could have developed &#8211; and I think would have &#8211; completely independent of the <em>Warcraft<\/em> model. I doubt you could say the same of the <em>Blitzkriegs<\/em> of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second part of Trent Polack&#8217;s history of Real Time Strategy is up. In it he once again echoes some of my thinking on the real time tactical games that don&#8217;t have base building or resource management, classifying them as an evolution of the RTS, but along a different path. I think the break is [&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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-6R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}