{"id":43,"date":"2008-09-10T06:42:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T11:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-09-10T07:19:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T12:19:49","slug":"shellblast-now-available-on-gamersgate-its-crunch-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"ShellBlast now available on GamersGate; it&#8217;s crunch time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another quick update and some news. First off, I&#8217;m proud to announce our new partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamersgate.com\" target=\"blank\">GamersGate.com<\/a>, a site that&#8217;s gaining popularity with such exclusives as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamersgate.com\/index.php?page=shop&#038;what=browse&#038;cat=all&#038;q=Bionic%20Commando\">Bionic Commando: Rearmed<\/a>. Our first commercial game (ShellBlast) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamersgate.com\/index.php?page=product&amp;what=view&amp;sku=DD-SHELLB&amp;via=newly_added\">is now available at the site<\/a>, with Spirits of Metropolis to follow soon.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nYou also may have noticed that the site runs a bit faster; it&#8217;s now running on clustered servers, providing faster loads and minimal downtime. Woo!<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nAnd one last thing&#8230;I&#8217;m going to go into crunch time right now with Spirits of Metropolis, so there might not be quite as many blog posts in general until the game is released. I have nearly completed the levels of Spirits; once that&#8217;s done its on to the editor and menus, and bam. Done. Once the game is closer to release I&#8217;ll reveal the final new modes and a bit of a neat surprise that I hope helps in Spirit&#8217;s success.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nThe goal is to get a private beta of the full game out by September 29th. Alright, it&#8217;s crunch time. Let&#8217;s do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another quick update and some news. First off, I&#8217;m proud to announce our new partnership with GamersGate.com, a site that&#8217;s gaining popularity with such exclusives as Bionic Commando: Rearmed. Our first commercial game (ShellBlast) is now available at the site, with Spirits of Metropolis to follow soon. You also may have noticed that the site runs a bit faster; it&#8217;s now running on clustered servers, providing faster loads and minimal downtime. Woo! And one last thing&#8230;I&#8217;m going to go<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=43\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-maker","category-shellblast","category-spirits-of-metropolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}