{"id":15,"date":"2006-02-21T17:04:14","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-02-21T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T00:04:14","slug":"meanwhile-out-in-the-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/meanwhile-out-in-the-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Out in the Galaxy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galciv2.com\/\">Galactic Civilizations II<\/a> has just been released. Outside of Civ, the epic turn-based strategy game market has been pretty small this decade, so it&#8217;s good to see another successful franchise in the space. Brad Wardell, the lead designer, gave me a chance to play-test the game late last year, and I had fun with it. It&#8217;s certainly a step up from its predecessor, which was a good game that was probably put together on a wing and a prayer.<\/p>\n<p>This version should hold a lot of appeal for fans of the Civ series. Unlike MOO, it sticks pretty closely to the turn-based, tile-based game mechanic of Sid&#8217;s original game. However, it definitely falls on the &#8220;more complex&#8221; side of the spectrum (it has more &#8220;stuff&#8221; in it than <em>Civ4<\/em>, for example&#8230;), but it starts small, which is key.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, turn-based fans should give it a look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galactic Civilizations II has just been released. Outside of Civ, the epic turn-based strategy game market has been pretty small this decade, so it&#8217;s good to see another successful franchise in the space. Brad Wardell, the lead designer, gave me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/meanwhile-out-in-the-galaxy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/meanwhile-out-in-the-galaxy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}