{"id":192,"date":"2013-09-28T17:36:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T17:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:47:18","slug":"it-is-finished-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/it-is-finished-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Finished! (Sort Of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last, <cite>Another Star<\/cite> is playable from beginning to end. The completion time for the very first run of the game was 20:24:22. That&#8217;s twenty hours, by the way. A nice, solid total for an RPG, I think.<\/p>\n<p>This means, ladies and gentlemen, that we are in beta.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, you\u2014yes, <em>you<\/em>\u2014can be a beta tester! All you have to do is download the game from the link below, play it for as long as you want, and then either leave a reply here or send an email telling me what you thought about it. None of the dialog or text is finalized, so I don&#8217;t care about typos, but please do tell me about bugs. And do let me know what exciting things you found while exploring, and what strategies you came up with to deal with enemies and bosses.<\/p>\n<p>(Save files from the previous version may or may not work. It&#8217;s best to start a new save.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em;\"><del>http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/beta_test\/AnotherStarB1.zip<\/del><br \/>\n(No longer available. Sorry!)<\/div>\n<p>Unlike the &#8220;leaked&#8221; version, I very much doubt this will be left up for more than a week or two, so grab it while you can, and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last, Another Star is playable from beginning to end. The completion time for the very first run of the game was 20:24:22. That&#8217;s twenty hours, by the way. A nice, solid total for an RPG, I think. This means, ladies and gentlemen, that we are in beta. In fact, you\u2014yes, you\u2014can be a beta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-another-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}