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Headlines in the news yesterday proclaimed that scientists have started to “count whales from space”. Which, of course, means they’re using satellites and whatnot to track whale populations. It doesn’t mean the other thing it could mean. That would have been pretty cool. For that, we have Windforge, a zepplin-crammed RPG set in a procedurally generated world with this bullet point:<\/p>\n

The first game to include minable sky whales, and meat blocks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you don’t believe me, you can get independent verification here<\/a>. Windforge is out on March 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Headlines in the news yesterday proclaimed that scientists have started to “count whales from space”. Which, of course, means they’re using satellites and whatnot to track whale populations. It doesn’t mean the other thing it could mean. That would have been pretty cool. For that, we have Windforge, a zepplin-crammed RPG set in a procedurally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nWindforge saves the whales. 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