{"id":5644,"date":"2011-10-12T02:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T06:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2013-09-26T11:05:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T15:05:56","slug":"starbase-orion-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/starbase-orion-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbase Orion Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  title=\"Starbase Orion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chimerasw.com\/starbaseorion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Starbase Orion<\/a>, a 4X turn-based space strategy game for the iOS family of devices, has been released today and is now available for purchase on the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/starbase_orion\" target=\"itunes_store\">App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The developer,\u00a0<a  title=\"Chimera Software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chimerasw.com\/starbaseorion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chimera Software<\/a>, is an independent publishing software company headquartered in Atlanta GA that specializes on developing and publishing software with a concentration on the Mac and iPhone platforms.\u00a0Starbase Orion was designed and is available for purchase for the iPad, IPhone and iPod Touch. To know more about Starbase Orion I invite you to read a\u00a0<a  title=\"Starbase Orion Preview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/starbase-orion-master-of-orion-2-with-better-multiplayer-for-ios\/\" target=\"_blank\">preview<\/a>\u00a0I did some time ago.<\/p>\n<p>As a summary, and according to Chimera\u2019s vision statement, Starbase Orion promises to \u201c<em>retain the classic turn-based gameplay of Master of Orion 2 while embracing the simplicity and multiplayer experience<\/em>\u00a0of Warcraft III\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>CS adds that \u201c<em>(their) biggest disappointment with Master of Orion II is the multiplayer support (\u2026) the hassle and time commitment you need to share the game experience with others is substantial<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>CS wants to improve the multiplayer experience of 4X Sci-Fi TBS games by \u201c<em>make it dead simple to find other people to play with, matches lasting 30-60 minutes. Long enough to have some great battles, yet short enough to get one or two in before bedtime<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re lucky to own an iOS device you can&#8217;t miss this one. Boy, I&#8217;m so\u00a0desperately in need to get one of this toys.<\/p>\n<p>More info on Starbase Orion will follow shortly, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/starbase_orion\" target=\"itunes_store\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5645\" title=\"available_on_the_app_store\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/available_on_the_app_store.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Screenshots<\/h3>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbase Orion, a 4X turn-based space strategy game for the iOS family of devices, has been released today and is now available at the App Store.<\/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":[86,552,280,270,269,271,67,121,336,483,31,30,346,192,230],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-4x-game","tag-chimera-software","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod-touch","tag-master-of-orion","tag-multiplayer","tag-sci-fi-game","tag-space-game","tag-space-strategy","tag-space-strategy-game","tag-starbase-orion","tag-tbs","tag-turn-based-strategy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644","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=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}