{"id":3840,"date":"2015-01-13T05:19:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T10:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2015-01-13T05:19:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T10:19:09","slug":"space-engine-to-boldly-go-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2015\/01\/13\/space-engine-to-boldly-go-where\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceEngine &#8211; Earth is such a tiny thing of the infinite universe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve rarely review non-Steam games. But the space nerd, Scott Manley(famous for his Kerbal Space Program videos), showed off a game that really has my interest.<br \/>\nFor many, many years, we on Planet Earth have always wondered one thing&#8230; &#8220;Is there life on other planets?&#8221; And also, the desire to want to find out how. It&#8217;s always been our human curiosity to answer that question. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.spaceengine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceEngine<\/a>, a completely free game, is our answer. It may not be the real thing, but it&#8217;s a close second.<br \/>\nYou can explore stars, planets, even zoom up to the surface of the planet and fly around mountains and other stuff, all in realtime! You&#8217;ll witness alien sunrises and sunsets, eclipses, planets and moons having their own sunrises and sunsets, and if the planet has an atmosphere, see clouds float by.<br \/>\nIt really makes you feel you are nothing but a spec of dust, compared to how fucking big the universe is. We definitely aren&#8217;t alone out there.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just half of it. There&#8217;s just so much to explore way, way beyond our own solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve rarely review non-Steam games. But the space nerd, Scott Manley(famous for his Kerbal Space Program videos), showed off a game that really has my interest. For many, many years, we on Planet Earth have always wondered one thing&#8230; &#8220;Is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2015\/01\/13\/space-engine-to-boldly-go-where\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-game-reviews-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}