{"id":45,"date":"2014-04-11T08:29:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2014-04-11T08:29:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:29:40","slug":"beta-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/beta-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Beta Station!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long, long development process, Rocketship Games is happy to announce a new boardgame release:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/betastation-600.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46\" title=\"Beta Station\" alt=\"Beta Station\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/betastation-600.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/betastation-600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/betastation-600-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/games\/betastation\/\"><em>Beta Station<\/em><\/a> is a casual sci-fi exploration dungeon crawl shoot-em-up by Daryl Falco and Joe Kopena. \u00a0Two to five players take turns constructing a derelict space station and then exploring to find the treasures therein while fighting off monsters and the other players. \u00a0It features a novel map construction mechanic that introduces an element of strategy to exploration usually lost in the &#8220;flip-a-tile&#8221; mechanic used by most dungeon crawl games.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/games\/betastation\/\"><em>Beta Station<\/em><\/a>\u00a0prototype is now available as a freely downloadable print &amp; play game; follow\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/games\/betastation\/\">the link<\/a>\u00a0to build your own!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7428.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50\" alt=\"IMG_7428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7428-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7428-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7428-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7430.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49\" alt=\"IMG_7430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7430-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7430-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7430-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7432.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47\" alt=\"IMG_7432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7432-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7432-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7432-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7436.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48\" alt=\"IMG_7436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7436-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7436-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7436-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/games\/betastation\/\">Beta Station<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>will always be available as a free print &amp; play game, but we are pursuing production options and a possible Kickstarter for later this year to publish a more polished edition. \u00a0<a href=\"contact@rocketshipgames.com\">Contact us<\/a> if you would be interested in supporting that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long, long development process, Rocketship Games is happy to announce a new boardgame release: Beta Station is a casual sci-fi exploration dungeon crawl shoot-em-up by Daryl Falco and Joe Kopena. \u00a0Two to five players take turns constructing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/beta-station\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[16,15,17,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}