{"id":17808,"date":"2018-04-20T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316809"},"modified":"2018-04-20T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T17:04:00","slug":"learn-the-secrets-behind-reviving-battletech-today-at-4pm-edt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/learn-the-secrets-behind-reviving-battletech-today-at-4pm-edt\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn the secrets behind reviving BattleTech today at 4PM EDT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the game industry&#8217;s oldest and most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/battletech\/battletech-harmony-gold-lawsuit\">lawsuit-friendly franchises<\/a>, <em>BattleTech\u00a0<\/em>went from being a &#8217;90s staple of game licensing to a forgotten memory, before being resurrected a couple years ago by <em>Shadowrun<\/em> developer Harebrained Schemes via Kickstarter. Next week, the new\u00a0<em>BattleTech<\/em> will launch on Steam to the general public, and we&#8217;ve been afforded the rare opportunity to chat with the developers right before the game launches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So today at 4PM EDT, we&#8217;re going live on Twitch with Mike McCain (who joined us previously during the <em>BattleTech<\/em> backer beta) and Mitch Gitelman (who&#8217;s been working on <em>BattleTech<\/em>-related games for quite some time), to talk about the launch of <em>BattleTech<\/em>, what they&#8217;ve learned during development, and why managing your mercenary company&#8217;s financial spreadsheets is just so satisfying.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got questions for McCain and Gitelman (and you should), be sure to join us at 4PM EDT and ask them in Twitch chat!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re at it, be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/Twitch.tv\/Gamasutra\">follow the Gamsutra Twitch channel<\/a> for more developer interviews, editor roundtables and gameplay commentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the game industry&#8217;s oldest and most lawsuit-friendly franchises, BattleTech\u00a0went from being a &#8217;90s staple of game licensing to a forgotten memory, before being resurrected a couple years ago by Shadowrun developer Harebrained Schemes via Kickstarter. Next week, the new\u00a0BattleTech will launch on Steam to the general public, and we&#8217;ve been afforded the rare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}