{"id":177,"date":"2009-01-19T19:54:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-01-19T19:54:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:54:58","slug":"the-new-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2009\/01\/19\/the-new-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what is this space game all about then?<\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s basically a <strong>big space battle simulator<\/strong>. A top-down, 2D space battle strategy game with no resource management, empire building, exploration or diplomacy.\u00a0 The game is influenced by a number of things, in visual terms, I&#8217;m inspired by the stupidly big battles at the end of star trek:ds9 and the start of revenge of the sith. In game terms, it&#8217;s inspired slightly by galactic civ II, and partly by an old pen and paper RPG called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traveller_(role-playing_game)\" target=\"_blank\">traveller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/blog\/damagetex2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the books of traveller was called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/traveller.wikia.com\/wiki\/Trillion_Credit_Squadron\" target=\"_blank\">trillion credit squadron<\/a>&#8216;, and it was based around the players being given a trillion credits to design and build a big space fleet (with certain restrcitions) to fight other players. That&#8217;s the basis of the gameplay for this currently un-named game. There will not be a big story, it&#8217;s basically a case of build a big fleet, send it into battle and enjoy the fun. I&#8217;ll be trying to make the battles look as good as 2D battles can look.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot more to the game than this, but that will come later. All my art is placeholder right now, so obviously there will be original spaceship designs. I haven&#8217;t found my spaceship artist or backdrop artists yet. In fact I haven&#8217;t started looking yet. Even now, it looks pretty cool in a big 1900&#215;1200 window with maybe 40-50 ships a side. I hope to scale it up way way beyond that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what is this space game all about then? Well it&#8217;s basically a big space battle simulator. A top-down, 2D space battle strategy game with no resource management, empire building, exploration or diplomacy.\u00a0 The game is influenced by a number of things, in visual terms, I&#8217;m inspired by the stupidly big battles at the end<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; The New Game<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2009\/01\/19\/the-new-game\/\">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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}