{"id":2026,"date":"2011-08-18T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/two-recent-turn-based-strategy-releases"},"modified":"2011-08-20T15:08:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T19:08:50","slug":"two-recent-turn-based-strategy-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/two-recent-turn-based-strategy-releases","title":{"rendered":"Two Recent Turn-Based Strategy Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ravenshield-planning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ravenshield-planning-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rainbow Six - Ravenshield planning\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2036\" \/><\/a>Despite the great time I have had playing <a href=\"http:\/\/armorgames.com\/play\/12123\/blipzkrieg\" title=\"Excellent RTS in-browser Flash game.\">Blipzkrieg<\/a>, I&#8217;ve also invested some time (and $7) on another game.<\/p>\n<p>Frozen Synapse was half-off on Steam this past weekend and I&#8217;ve been playing it quite a bit&#8230;   in between renders. I am certainly digging it, as it feels like a combination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ravenshield-planning.jpg\" title=\"screenshot\">Rainbow Six&#8217;s planning stages<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pwtPptYHXQ0\">X-COM<\/a> and Jagged Alliance. Games can be completed fairly quickly, unlike most turn-based strategy games, which is a big plus for casual gamers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth mentioning that they&#8217;ve demoed some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2011\/08\/13\/aiming-at-jagged-alliance-online-footage\/\" title=\"RPG + Turn-Based Strategy = Jagged Alliance\">Jagged Alliance Online footage on Rock, Paper, Shotgun<\/a>. Great game and I remember running into one of the developers while snowboarding in Vancouver<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BOlV_9DYnOw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the great time I have had playing Blipzkrieg, I&#8217;ve also invested some time (and $7) on another game. Frozen Synapse was half-off on Steam this past weekend and I&#8217;ve been playing it quite a bit&#8230; in between renders. I am certainly digging it, as it feels like a combination of Rainbow Six&#8217;s planning stages, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,60,212,398,131,399,145],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-flash","tag-game","tag-rpg","tag-rts","tag-strategy","tag-turn-based","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}