{"id":2490,"date":"2013-08-09T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2013-08-09T16:11:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:11:21","slug":"crunch-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/08\/09\/crunch-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunch Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a day-off booekd for the 24th August. I&#8217;ll probably do some programming anyway, but according to my schedule, there is nothing specific booked on that day. Every other day in between has a pile of stuff to do. Why so busy?<\/p>\n<p>Well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redshirtgame.com\/index.php?src=cliffski.com\">REDSHIRT<\/a> will be shipping very soon, insofar as we will start taking pre-orders and make the beta available to people who order it. When I say beta, I really mean beta, not some experimental kickstarter-early-access style tech demo, I mean beta. The game is perfectly playable. Bugs to find, balance to tweak, typos to fix, but everything feature and design wise is looking pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2491\" alt=\"rs\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rs.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rs.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rs-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rs-317x237.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after redshirt going into beta, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/democracy3\/index.php?src=cliffski.com\">DEMOCRACY 3<\/a> will go into beta as well. This is in the same state, ie: finished, apart from any last minute bugs or balance tweaks. Officially, I&#8217;ve balanced the UK, France and half of Germany.\u00a0 USA,Canada and Australia will be done over the next few days, then I&#8217;ve set aside some time to bug hunt in redshirt. Democracy 3 will be on sale from my suite hopefully by the end of the month, with pre-order customers getting to play it straight away, and a steam and final release about a month later.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/d3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2492\" alt=\"d3\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/d3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/d3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/d3-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/d3-317x197.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After both games officially ship, there will be a bit of admin involved in terms of Linux &amp; Mac builds of both games, and an ipad port for Redshirt. Then&#8230;.who knows what comes next! I have grand plans for Gratuitous Space Battles 2, and also vague other plans, and may actually consider whether it makes sense to carry on like this as the sole designer\/coder.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway between now and then is a lot of crunch crunch crunch. Also, in unrelated news, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Seducing-Subconscious-Psychology-Emotional-Advertising\/dp\/0470974885\">this book on advertising and neuroscience<\/a>. half way through it so far, kinda cool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a day-off booekd for the 24th August. I&#8217;ll probably do some programming anyway, but according to my schedule, there is nothing specific booked on that day. Every other day in between has a pile of stuff to do. Why so busy? Well REDSHIRT will be shipping very soon, insofar as we will start<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Crunch Crunch<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/08\/09\/crunch-crunch\/\">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":[3,117,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-democracy3","category-redshirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","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=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}