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We recently sat down with game designer Steve Baldwin to talk about his board game project “Specimen.” Read the full interview here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently sat down with game designer Steve Baldwin to talk about his board game project “Specimen.” Read the full interview here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[185],"tags":[178,191,155,92,56,60,57,94,89,190],"class_list":["post-3812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specimen","tag-board-game","tag-cdg","tag-film","tag-future","tag-horror-2","tag-monsters","tag-sci-fi-2","tag-science-fiction","tag-space","tag-specimen-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf8KOM-Zu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3942,"url":"https:\/\/toxicbag.com\/?p=3942","url_meta":{"origin":3812,"position":0},"title":"New Specimen Photo: Captain Tyler","author":"admin","date":"July 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's Specimen image features game designer Steve Baldwin as Captain Tyler. 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