{"id":5668,"date":"2012-08-28T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T09:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2012-08-28T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T09:15:54","slug":"clockwork-empires-pc-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/28\/clockwork-empires-pc-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Clockwork Empires (PC game)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have fond memories of a few of the best of the isometric-view strategy videogames, and once greatly enjoyed Sid Meier&#8217;s <em>Civilisation II<\/em> and later his <em>Railroads<\/em> and others.  Also <em>Titan Quest<\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectworlds.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/30\/my-review-of-titan-quest-2006-in-2010\/\">review<\/a>], although that was more <em>Diablo<\/em>-like.  So the new <em>PC Gamer<\/em> magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/previews\/clockwork-empires-a-preview-of-gaslamp-games-lovecraft-laden-steampunk-city-builder\/\">pre-release coverage<\/a> of the moddable PC game <em>Clockwork Empires<\/em> sounds <em>very<\/em> interesting. Especially as it&#8217;s apparently a&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Lovecraft-laden steampunk city-builder&#8221; [in which the player is a <em>Civilisation<\/em>-style] colony-builder amid the grand idealism of Victorian discovery [but] with horrors, madness, wild species, and volatile science.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds awesome, but sadly it&#8217;s all very much &#8220;under development&#8221;.  It looks like we&#8217;ll have to wait until around Sept\/Oct 2013 before we can play it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/immigration-colony-poster3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"immigration-colony-poster3\" width=\"529\" height=\"773\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5669\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have fond memories of a few of the best of the isometric-view strategy videogames, and once greatly enjoyed Sid &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/28\/clockwork-empires-pc-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}