{"id":624,"date":"2012-01-11T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2012-01-11T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:23:00","slug":"podcast-monster-companion-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/podcast-monster-companion-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Monster Companion Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-430\" title=\"Podcast 8 Bit\" src=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/podcast8bit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"46\" height=\"46\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/podcast8bit.png 46w, http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/podcast8bit-24x24.png 24w, http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/podcast8bit-36x36.png 36w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 46px) 100vw, 46px\" \/>With a standalone installer and the flash client on the way, 2012 is going to be a big year for NEStalgia. As we work to exponentially increase the NEStalgia&#8217;s player base this year, the game itself will continue to receive lots of awesome new updates and content expansions. The next big update in the works is the <a href=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/the-next-big-steps-for-nestalgia\/\">previously announced<\/a> Monster Companion expansion that will enable players to recruit almost any monsters in the game to be their AI controlled allies. For this week&#8217;s podcast we did a Q&amp;A about this new companion system based upon <a href=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;t=7445\">player submitted questions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>[mp3-jplayer tracks=&#8221;Ep14 (1\/11\/12) &#8211; A Q&amp;A session about Monster Companions@NEStalgiaPodcastEp14.mp3&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>You can find this and previous podcasts on the <a href=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/podcasts\/\">NEStalgia Podcasts<\/a> page and <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/silk-games-nestalgia-podcast\/id456823623\">also on iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although lots of progress is being made, I won&#8217;t be making any big preview blog posts about Monster Companions (or the automated PvP Tournaments that Spiff is working on) until there is something worth showing off. As soon as I have something solid to report, all of you will be the first to know about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a standalone installer and the flash client on the way, 2012 is going to be a big year for NEStalgia. As we work to exponentially increase the NEStalgia&#8217;s player base this year, the game itself will continue to receive lots of awesome new updates and content expansions. The next big update in the works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,23,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}