{"id":230,"date":"2012-06-25T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/?p=230"},"modified":"2012-07-04T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T21:53:34","slug":"answering-some-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Answering some questions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! After notch&#8217;s tweet about Zombox on the weekend and RockPaperShotgun&#8217;s small article on it, the game has been getting a lot of attention! And with that attention&#8230;lots of questions from interested gamers. Here I&#8217;ll try to answer a few of them:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is multiplayer\/co-op planned?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently Zombox is a single-player game only. While I realize an open-world sandbox environment is a perfect multiplayer setting, my target devices (iOS smarphones and pads) wouldn&#8217;t be able to handle the game along with multiple players in the same world. Not because they can&#8217;t do multiplayer, but because the game would require a fair amount of extra processing power to enable such a feature. I&#8217;m already squeezing every ounce of processing juice that I can out of the handheld devices to get the game to run&#8230;they simply wouldn&#8217;t be able to handle the extra players right now.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I also hope to release on Steam at some point, and since desktop computers will have no problem running the game, multiplayer is a <em>possibility<\/em> for a future version of the game. But it&#8217;s worth noting that I can&#8217;t make any promises about that.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When is it going to be released?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have an exact date yet&#8230;.but I&#8217;m making great progress on the development of the game so there&#8217;s no need to fear about it being stuck in development hell forever.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will there be a beta?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not totally sure about that either. I hope to have a short-term beta for the game when it&#8217;s close to release, but I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;ll be a public beta, or a private beta with hand-picked testers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How much will it cost?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaning towards $2.99.<\/p>\n<p>Also, someone requested a hi-res version of the image at the top of the page, so <a title=\"Zombox wallpaper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/stuff\/zombox_hd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here it is!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! After notch&#8217;s tweet about Zombox on the weekend and RockPaperShotgun&#8217;s small article on it, the game has been getting a lot of attention! And with that attention&#8230;lots of questions from interested gamers. Here I&#8217;ll try to answer a few of them:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}