{"id":860,"date":"2008-02-06T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T16:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/06\/sins-interview\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T16:50:49","slug":"sins-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/06\/sins-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Sins Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/?p=1046\">Kieron Gillen&#8217;s interview with Blair Fraser<\/a>, lead designer of this month&#8217;s addiction, <em>Sins of a Solar Empire<\/em> and Stardock&#8217;s Brad Wardell.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from the interview:<\/p>\n<p>On why they focused on what they focused on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t count how many times I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve looked at that list during a game purchase only to be disappointed that bullet point X wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all that fun and was obviously shoveled in to receive the checkmark. The game would have been better off by dropping it. In a sense, things done poorly are worse than not done at all \u00e2\u20ac\u201c especially when the resources involved could have made a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d feature \u00e2\u20ac\u0153great\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On backstory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have to provide a certain minimal level of lore, immersive detail and backstory so that players have a foundation on which to create their own story during single player. In this sense Sins provides a lot of material. Every ship\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appearance, abilities, and voices, all research trees and the specific topics themselves every music track, every sound effect \u00e2\u20ac\u201c well basically everything in the entire game is based around the story and lore behind the three races and the rest of the Sins Universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On things that suck:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll about planet suckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. I love when the Vasari\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jarrasul Evacuator (aka the floating mega city) powers up its Drain Planet and you watch all the debris fly up from the surface into its gaping maw in a giant, swirling, vortex of destruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss Kieron Gillen&#8217;s interview with Blair Fraser, lead designer of this month&#8217;s addiction, Sins of a Solar Empire and Stardock&#8217;s Brad Wardell. Highlights from the interview: On why they focused on what they focused on: I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t count how many times I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve looked at that list during a game purchase only to be disappointed [&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":[9,16,116],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-dS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}