{"id":952,"date":"2008-05-14T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/14\/the-state-of-strategy-gaming\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T12:31:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T16:31:41","slug":"the-state-of-strategy-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/14\/the-state-of-strategy-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Strategy Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty far behind in my podcast listening. I haven&#8217;t listened to the PC Gamer podcast or the Games for Windows &#8216;cast in a while.<\/p>\n<p>The Gamers With Jobs podcast is still a weekly listen, though. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerswithjobs.com\/node\/39114\">And this week&#8217;s broadcast deals specifically with strategy gaming<\/a>. Maxis&#8217; Soren Johnson sits in and talks about <em>Civ IV<\/em>, <em>World in Conflict<\/em>, <em>Sins of a Solar Empire<\/em> and board games. The real big strategy discussion starts about forty percent of the way in, but the entire podcast is worthwhile.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s very important that strategy games not go down the flight simulator path.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty far behind in my podcast listening. I haven&#8217;t listened to the PC Gamer podcast or the Games for Windows &#8216;cast in a while. The Gamers With Jobs podcast is still a weekly listen, though. And this week&#8217;s broadcast deals specifically with strategy gaming. Maxis&#8217; Soren Johnson sits in and talks about Civ IV, [&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":[9,78,86],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-fm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}