{"id":867,"date":"2012-03-06T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=867"},"modified":"2025-01-23T09:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:46:19","slug":"kickstarting-apocalypse-wasteland2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2012\/03\/06\/kickstarting-apocalypse-wasteland2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarting the Apocalypse: Wasteland 2 in Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

These days, computer games that perform even tolerably well in the marketplace are all but guaranteed a sequel. Indeed, my current pile of Xbox 360 games is all sequels: Mass Effect 3, Gears 3, NHL 12, Fallout: New Vegas, Forza 4, and so forth.<\/p>\n

But in the heady days of actual floppy discs, when loading a game on your trusty Commodore 64 took five minutes and Electronic Arts was amazingly cool, sequels were few and far between. So it comes as a welcome surprise that one of the finest games of the late 1980s, Wasteland<\/a>, stands poised to make a return. If you ever wondered where the Fallout series came from, look no further.<\/p>\n

\"Combat<\/p>\n

Brian Fargo, one of the original creators of Wasteland, is spearheading development of Wasteland 2<\/a>, to be funded as a Kickstarter<\/a> campaign. I spent hours and hours with the original post-apocalyptic RPG, both on floppy and later via the magic of emulators (when I finally finished the damn thing), and I call upon all true fans of the genre to pony up some cash and fund this game<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These days, computer games that perform even tolerably well in the marketplace are all but guaranteed a sequel. Indeed, my current pile of Xbox 360 games is all sequels: Mass Effect 3, Gears 3, NHL 12, Fallout: New Vegas, Forza 4, and so forth. But in the heady days of actual floppy discs, when loading … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,54],"tags":[94,180],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-role-playing-games","tag-fallout-3","tag-wasteland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-dZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7804,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/7804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}