{"id":791,"date":"2007-10-25T15:29:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T19:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/25\/in-the-meantime\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T18:40:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T22:40:58","slug":"in-the-meantime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/25\/in-the-meantime\/","title":{"rendered":"In the meantime&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for my review of <em>Armageddon Empires<\/em> to be uploaded before I say any more about what is probably the most surprising game of the year. But until then, please use the interim to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crypticcomet.com\/blog\/\">developer Vic Davis&#8217;s blog<\/a>. It has the usual indie developer stuff (here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re working on, here&#8217;s a patch schedule, etc.) but the real gems are the posts here and there on general game design. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crypticcomet.com\/blog\/?p=111\">Why use random events?<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crypticcomet.com\/blog\/?p=108\">How do you balance a game where a leader becomes unstoppable?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, one of my pet topics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crypticcomet.com\/blog\/?p=103\">counterfactuals in historical games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t allow comments, still you should bookmark it. Not everything on the internet is interactive, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for my review of Armageddon Empires to be uploaded before I say any more about what is probably the most surprising game of the year. But until then, please use the interim to read developer Vic Davis&#8217;s blog. It has the usual indie developer stuff (here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re working on, here&#8217;s a patch [&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":[14,62],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-cL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}