{"id":6958,"date":"2012-05-28T12:07:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2012-05-29T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T22:42:09","slug":"star-colonies-free-space-strategy-game-for-android-currently-in-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/star-colonies-free-space-strategy-game-for-android-currently-in-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Colonies: Free New Space Strategy Game for Android &#8211; Currently in Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6959\" title=\"Star Colonies | Android\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/star_colonies.jpg\" alt=\"Star Colonies | Android\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/star_colonies.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/star_colonies-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Android folks will be glad to know that there is a new space strategy game available\u00a0in Google Play. Its name is <a  title=\"Star Colonies\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.blueplop.starcolonies\" target=\"_blank\">Star Colonies<\/a>, and it is a real-time strategy game.<\/p>\n<p>Star Colonies\u00a0is a free app that is currently in beta, that apparently uses ads as business model. Final release is scheduled for May 2012.\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.blueplop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BluePlop Team<\/a>\u00a0describes their game as &#8220;Colonize star systems, build different buildings, discover new technologies and build the most powerful fleet to beat enemies! If you played and liked the game Master of Orion, you will enjoy this sci-fi game too!&#8221;.\u00a0For the future\u00a0BPT\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.blueplop.com\/star-colonies\/game.html\" target=\"_blank\">announces<\/a>\u00a0more difficulty levels, more races with special abilities and multiplayer. But, they are <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.blueplop.com\/star-colonies\/game.html\" target=\"_blank\">accepting<\/a> new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like an interesting game and it is scoring quite high in reviews (4.5\/5.0 with 51 votes in <a  href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.blueplop.starcolonies\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play<\/a>). You have some game impressions by desito,\u00a0a SS forum member (that doesn&#8217;t work for the devs ;) ),\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/forum\/thread-867-post-2972.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0Maybe you should have a look. At least it&#8217;s free (for now).<\/p>\n<p>Actually, there are quite a few other space strategy games available for Android for you to check out.\u00a0Some of which are also free. Here are 15 of them:\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15-space-strategy-games-for-your-android-device\/\" target=\"_blank\">15 Space Strategy Games for Your Android Device<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the SS forum member <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/forum\/thread-867-post-2972.html#pid2972\" target=\"_blank\">desito<\/a> for this find ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android folks will be glad to know that there is a new space strategy game available in Google Play: Star Colonies.<\/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":[70,74],"tags":[1011,665,1010,18,1009,231,30,1008],"class_list":["post-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-under-development","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-ads","tag-android","tag-blue-plop-team","tag-free","tag-google-play","tag-real-time-strategy","tag-space-strategy-game","tag-star-colonies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","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=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}