{"id":6862,"date":"2017-12-01T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/310871"},"modified":"2017-12-01T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T18:02:00","slug":"battletech-game-director-mike-mccain-is-answering-your-questions-at-3pm-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/01\/battletech-game-director-mike-mccain-is-answering-your-questions-at-3pm-est\/","title":{"rendered":"Battletech game director Mike McCain is answering your questions at 3PM EST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you grew up loving the <em>Battletech<\/em> series and the associated <em>Mechwarrior<\/em> games in the &#8217;90s, you probably already know there&#8217;s a strategy game reboot in the works from the fine folks at Harebrained Schemes. While the full game isn&#8217;t QUITE ready to show off, we&#8217;re excited to let you know that we&#8217;re going to be streaming the backer beta with game director Mike McCain today at 3PM EST.<\/p>\n<p>This&#8217;ll be our first time streaming a game that&#8217;s midway through its Kickstarter development cycle, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to chat with McCain about what life is like right now at Harebrained while its game is still in gestation. If you&#8217;ve got questions for McCain about <em>Battletech<\/em> or <em>Shadowrun<\/em>, be sure to join us in Twitch chat!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re at it, be sure to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitch.tv\/Gamasutra\">follow the Gamasutra Twitch channel<\/a> for more developer interviews, editor roundtables and gameplay commentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you grew up loving the Battletech series and the associated Mechwarrior games in the &#8217;90s, you probably already know there&#8217;s a strategy game reboot in the works from the fine folks at Harebrained Schemes. While the full game isn&#8217;t QUITE ready to show off, we&#8217;re excited to let you know that we&#8217;re going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6862","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\/6862","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=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}