{"id":1030,"date":"2011-02-03T22:24:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T22:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2011-02-03T22:24:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T22:24:03","slug":"half-a-million-space-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/02\/03\/half-a-million-space-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a million space battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a chirpy statistic. At the time of writing, the total number of online &#8216;challenge&#8217; games of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousspacebattles.com\">Gratuitous Space Battles<\/a> that have been played is&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">501,934<\/h2>\n<p>Or in other words&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>HALF A MILLION GAMES OF GRATUITOUS SPACE BATTLES.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>That&#8217;s just online challenges, meaning player A trying to beat player B&#8217;s fleet, whether it&#8217;s on Mac or PC, direct or through steam. It&#8217;s all handled by my server. The number of offline, single player games against the pre-shipping AI fleets is likely to be a lot higher. That&#8217;s pretty scary. Also, lets not dismiss over 40,000 uploaded player challenges (actually many more, older unplayed ones get deleted) and over 100,000 campaign battles already.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so it&#8217;s not exactly minecraft, but still, not bad going for a game made by a few geeks, and a few cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a chirpy statistic. At the time of writing, the total number of online &#8216;challenge&#8217; games of Gratuitous Space Battles that have been played is&#8230; 501,934 Or in other words&#8230; HALF A MILLION GAMES OF GRATUITOUS SPACE BATTLES. That&#8217;s just online challenges, meaning player A trying to beat player B&#8217;s fleet, whether it&#8217;s on Mac<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Half a million space battles<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/02\/03\/half-a-million-space-battles\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-gratuitous-space-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}