{"id":47,"date":"2015-04-26T18:34:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T23:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.empireinflames.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2015-04-26T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T23:36:16","slug":"raph-koster-on-swg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Raph Koster on SWG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raph Koster has been writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphkoster.com\/tag\/star-wars-galaxies\/\">a series of reflections and explanations on early Star Wars Galaxies<\/a>. It began with reflections on TEF and Jedi, and has now branched out into world-building for an MMO.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fascinating read. Oddly enough &#8211; and encouragingly &#8211; much of what he&#8217;s written about, particularly in the last few posts &#8211; line up with the framework\u00a0<em>An Empire in Flames<\/em> is using to build a unique Star Wars Galaxies emulator. While I won&#8217;t say we&#8217;re building the Raph Koster version of SWG, it&#8217;s good to see our ideas mirrored by a professional.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly of note is the concept of enabling players. Most modern MMOs try to <em>limit<\/em> players and keep them on rails for an &#8220;experience.&#8221; Star Wars Galaxies, and\u00a0<em>An Empire in Flames<\/em>, attempts to\u00a0<em>enable<\/em> players to make the universe their own with systems that reward players for playing the game in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a Star Wars Galaxies fan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphkoster.com\/tag\/star-wars-galaxies\/\">take the time to read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raph Koster has been writing a series of reflections and explanations on early Star Wars Galaxies. It began with reflections on TEF and Jedi, and has now branched out into world-building for an MMO. It&#8217;s a fascinating read. Oddly enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/?p=47\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}