{"id":23794,"date":"2010-07-06T08:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/moonbase-alpha\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T08:11:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:11:27","slug":"moonbase-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/moonbase-alpha.php","title":{"rendered":"Moonbase Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/?p=6306\"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.<\/em><\/a><\/p><p>From NASA:<\/p><blockquote><p>Moonbase Alpha is a game with single and multiplayer options where players step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement. Their mission is to restore critical systems and oxygen flow after a nearby meteor strike cripples a solar array and life support equipment.<\/p><p>NASA will release the game on Valve&rsquo;s Steam network on Tuesday, July 6. The Army Game Studio produced the game with development by Virtual Heroes, a division of Applied Research Associates in Research Triangle Park, N.C.<\/p><p>Game Features:<\/p><p>* Realistic NASA exploration scenarios<br>* Immersive 3D graphics<br>* Solo or team play<br>* VOIP chat<br>* Alternate voicable text chat<\/p><p>&hellip;COMING JULY 6th!<\/p><\/blockquote><p>I have a Beta copy of this and find it rather challenging. The graphics are good and the play on the laptop is nice and smooth.  At first I thought driving the rover was a little counter intuitive until I started piloting the robots, all of a sudden the rovers weren&rsquo;t so bad <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c493b_icon_mrgreen.gif\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"> <\/p><p>I&rsquo;m getting there even though I seem to be running out of oxygen on every EVA.<\/p><p>Enjoy a safe 4<sup>th<\/sup> of July everybody!!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to view the embedded video.From NASA:Moonbase Alpha is a game with single and multiplayer options where players step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement. Their mission is to restore critical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/moonbase-alpha.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}