{"id":11972,"date":"2015-01-19T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=11972"},"modified":"2015-01-19T11:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:16:27","slug":"sid-meiers-starships-new-space-strategy-game-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/sid-meiers-starships-new-space-strategy-game-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Sid Meier&#8217;s Starships: New Space Strategy Game Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11975\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sid_meier_starships_turn_based_space_strategy.jpg\" alt=\"Sid Meier's Starships | A turn-based space strategy game by Firaxis Games and 2K\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sid_meier_starships_turn_based_space_strategy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sid_meier_starships_turn_based_space_strategy-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Firaxis Games and 2K have just <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FiraxisGames\/status\/557167084300681216\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Sid Meier&#8217;s Starships, and this time around this is a title that has actually been designed and coded by Sid Meier himself, with the help of a small team behind him at Firaxis.<\/p>\n<p>Announced at\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/firaxis-reveals-new-interstellar-strategy-game-sid\/1100-6424728\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a>, Starships is a turn-based space strategy game scheduled to release in early 2015 for PC, Mac and iPad. On their twitter account, Firaxis <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CivGame\/status\/557166202586296322\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that it&#8217;s &#8220;a new tactical strategy game in the Beyond Earth universe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When designing Starships, I was intrigued by the idea of exploring the next chapter in the story of\u00a0<a  title=\"Civilization: Beyond Earth review\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/civilization-beyond-earth-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ref-id=\"false\">Civilization: Beyond Earth<\/a>&#8220;, Meier said. &#8220;What happens after we colonize our new home and eventually build starships to take to the stars? What has become of our long-lost brothers and sisters from the planet Earth? My goal was to create an experience that focuses on starship design and combat within a universe filled with interstellar adventure, diplomacy, and exploration.\u00a0-Sid Meier (for <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/firaxis-reveals-new-interstellar-strategy-game-sid\/1100-6424728\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xQh6WjrRohc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mentioned features include &#8220;dynamically generated&#8221; turn-based combat,\u00a0&#8220;futuristic&#8221; technology, customizable ships and missions in order to &#8220;protect planets and their inhabitants, and build a planetary federation&#8221;. Also mentioned is a possible cross-connectivity feature for people who own both Beyond Earth and Starships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Find the available screenshots below.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firaxis Games and 2K have just announced Sid Meier&#8217;s Starships, a turn-based space strategy game scheduled to release in early 2015 for PC, Mac and iPad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[742,741,270,278,117,229,201,1397,1457,30,230,1066],"class_list":["post-11972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-2k-games","tag-firaxis-games","tag-ipad","tag-mac","tag-pc-game","tag-ship-design","tag-sid-meier","tag-sid-meiers-civilization-beyond-earth","tag-sid-meiers-starships","tag-space-strategy-game","tag-turn-based-strategy","tag-turn-based-tactical-combat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}