{"id":8169,"date":"2017-12-18T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/311928"},"modified":"2017-12-18T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:22:00","slug":"rising-thunder-dev-set-to-release-shuttered-fighting-game-and-server-source-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/18\/rising-thunder-dev-set-to-release-shuttered-fighting-game-and-server-source-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Thunder dev set to release shuttered fighting game and server source code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radiant Entertainment is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/risingthunder\/comments\/7knc33\/coming_in_jan_rising_thunder_community_edition\/\">winding up to share the final build<\/a> of its canceled fighting game <em>Rising Thunder<\/em> as a free, community-focused release.<\/p>\n<p>Usually canceled projects never see the light of day, so Radiant&#8217;s ability to suddenly release a final build of <em>Rising Thunder<\/em> complete with quality-of-life improvements and the source code for online servers is no small surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The game itself was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/267541\/Acquired_by_Riot_Radiant_shuts_down_Rising_Thunder.php\">canceled back in 2016<\/a> when Riot Games acquired the studio and shifted the development team to new projects. There have\u00a0since been scattered fan attempts to revive the game&#8217;s online servers as they were during its beta period, and Radiant now says the release of <em>Rising Thunder: Community Edition<\/em> is their contribution to those efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Due out in January, the <em>Community Edition<\/em> will be the final build Radiant made of the game, with a few alterations. Online play and local play have both been included, along with some minor fixes and tweak. Additionally, Radiant plans to release source code for an open-source version of the <em>Rising Thunder<\/em> server, essentially giving the community a chance to participate in matchmade online games and also mess with the code itself if desired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiant Entertainment is winding up to share the final build of its canceled fighting game Rising Thunder as a free, community-focused release. Usually canceled projects never see the light of day, so Radiant&#8217;s ability to suddenly release a final build of Rising Thunder complete with quality-of-life improvements and the source code for online servers is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8169","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\/8169","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=8169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}