{"id":819,"date":"2007-12-14T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T17:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/14\/ballerium\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T13:56:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T17:56:29","slug":"ballerium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/14\/ballerium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballerium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ballerium.com\"><em>Ballerium<\/em> is a free-to-play MMO RTS<\/a> from Majorem and Sleepy Giant. I will definitely be giving it a spin sometime in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I expect much. The video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballerium.com\/explore\">on this page<\/a> does not inspire a lot of confidence. Be awed by the path-finding through the forest. Count the number of times the player has to drag-select a group of units before they recognize the movement command. Cower before the music that overwhelms your senses while you try to make out the low res units on a tiny streaming video screen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ballerium.com\/index.php\/Main_Page\">The wiki<\/a> helps some. Seven unique races with unique whatchamacallits. The artwork is passable for a free game, and the idea of thousands of people playing on the same server is certainly intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone gets to this before I do, feel free to pipe up with comments and impressions. Hell is other people, and doubly so in RTS multiplayer. But this will make an interesting test for the concept of base building focused MMO real time strategy games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballerium is a free-to-play MMO RTS from Majorem and Sleepy Giant. I will definitely be giving it a spin sometime in the new year. Not that I expect much. The video on this page does not inspire a lot of confidence. Be awed by the path-finding through the forest. Count the number of times 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":[101,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-dd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819"}],"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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}