{"id":2,"date":"2016-06-16T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/battlegoat.info\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-10-03T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:23:22","slug":"about-battlegoat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/index.php\/about-battlegoat\/","title":{"rendered":"About BattleGoat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>BattleGoat Studios is a Canadian Software Developer committed to developing leading edge \u201cIntelligent Strategy Games\u201d for the PC. Founded in 2000, by George Geczy (Lead Programmer) and David Thompson (Lead Designer), the team firmly believes that Strategy Gamers are looking for more sophisticated games that also remain fun to play. \u00a0BattleGoat insists that their approach to development will always emphasize an accurate, heavily researched environment assuring players an entertaining and immersive gameplay experience.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When founded, it was with the goal of re-imagining the text-based strategy game <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supreme Ruler\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that George had written for the TRS-80 back in 1982 while still in High School. Creating a new real world graphic environment based on existing Technologies, Militaries, Politics, and Economics was realized with the release of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supreme Ruler 2010 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in June 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At more than 35 years old and counting, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supreme Ruler\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">franchise is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) gaming franchises still in active development.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-232 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/battlegoat.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/about-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"about\" width=\"377\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/about-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/about-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/about.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Releases:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aug 2017 &#8211; Supreme Ruler The Great War<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oct 2014 \u2013 Supreme Ruler Ultimate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">May 2014 \u2013 Supreme Ruler 1936<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">July 2011 \u2013 Supreme Ruler Cold War<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sept 2009 \u2013 Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dec 2008 \u2013 Supreme Ruler: Global Crisis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">May 2008 \u2013 Supreme Ruler 2020<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">June 2005 \u2013 Supreme Ruler 2010<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also by George Geczy, Pre BattleGoat:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1983 \u2013 Supreme Ruler Plus \u00a0(TRS-80)<\/p>\n<p>1982 \u2013 Supreme Ruler (TRS-80)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"copyrightText\" style=\"font-size:0.85em;\">&copy; BattleGoat Studios. 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Founded in 2000, by George Geczy (Lead Programmer) and David Thompson (Lead Designer), the team firmly believes that Strategy Gamers are looking for more sophisticated games that also remain fun to play. \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/index.php\/about-battlegoat\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"icon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":93,"href":"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battlegoat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}