{"id":23,"date":"2008-08-14T00:50:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T00:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metroplexity.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-11-18T01:23:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T01:23:24","slug":"state-of-the-game-august-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"State of the Game (August 14th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;Beta&#8221; gets thrown around a lot these days. To me, it just means that we&#8217;ve exited Alpha (in house testing, as it were), and are ready for open testing.<\/p>\n<p>What that means for <i>you<\/i> is that you&#8217;ll get to help us build a great game as we roll out more features and content. If there&#8217;s anything you have problems with, or would like to see, feel free to bring it up here or use the bug report feature in game.<\/p>\n<h4>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s in:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Combat, which is quite different from what you may be used to.<\/li>\n<li>The contacts system.<\/li>\n<li>Messaging for player to player communication.<\/li>\n<li>Inventory, including a usable items and the effects of equipment. They&#8217;re not labeled yet, but I assure you they work behind the scenes.\n<\/li>\n<li>Buffs from items.<\/li>\n<li>Some fairly basic Skills and Techniques.<\/li>\n<li>The entirety of the first quest, set in Southside Park and its environs. This includes two (2) different paths to completing it.<\/li>\n<li>A whole lot of awesome art. (I can say its awesome because I didn&#8217;t make it so its not bragging.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s not in:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Chat, at all. I&#8217;m not even faking chat yet.<\/li>\n<li>Messages don&#8217;t allow players to attach credits or items.<\/li>\n<li>Usable skills.<\/li>\n<li>Cybernetics, Hacking, and Crafting.<\/li>\n<li>And, the big one: the vast majority of the content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>What&#8217;s next:<\/h4>\n<p>The Docks quest is coming along nicely. Also, I plan to have items start proudly declaring their bonuses soon.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKinak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;Beta&#8221; gets thrown around a lot these days. To me, it just means that we&#8217;ve exited Alpha (in house testing, as it were), and are ready for open testing. What that means for you is that you&#8217;ll get to help us build a great game as we roll out more features and content. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9,35,12],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stateofthegame","tag-beta","tag-puyo","tag-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metroplexitygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}