{"id":329,"date":"2018-04-25T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T10:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=329"},"modified":"2018-04-25T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T10:33:30","slug":"questing-questing-the-night-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2018\/04\/25\/questing-questing-the-night-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Questing, questing the night away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, in my long term goals of getting a wet bar put in the office, kids that behave, and a wife that gives unsolicited foot rubs; there IS the small matter of having a full fledged, 3 level demo done by the time GDEX rolls around in September.<\/p>\n<p>I have come to realize that constantly polishing the same level I have made is making what I have smoother and shinier, but doesn&#8217;t do much to get to that end goal of having s o m e t h i n g done. And for that, I need something more than just bouncing around my flower level until the player gets to the top. And as serendipity seems to just <em>flow<\/em> from my child&#8217;s fingertips (I wonder if that&#8217;s his mutant superpower) he drew the whole range of coins, pennies, dimes &#8211; he even got a Half Dollar, too!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/coikns.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-332\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/coikns-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/coikns-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/coikns-1024x557.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/coikns-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/coikns-1536x836.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/coikns.png 1652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">fun with pennies and kaboings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, now the fun part of it: making things; pasting them around the level and playing it until I <em>think<\/em> its kinda fun. My neighbors have a couple of kids who are willing playtesters, so I&#8217;ll have the dads over for some home brewed ales while we watch the kids play and wait for their verdict.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/vNMDSzpcSE3TTwq8zv\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And as always, my art director \/ inspiration is finding it equally fun to make assets and asks daily to &#8216;do some animation&#8217; &#8211; this is one of his latest entries. Now its up to me to figure out how I can use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in my long term goals of getting a wet bar put in the office, kids that behave, and a wife that gives unsolicited foot rubs; there IS the small matter of having a full fledged, 3 level demo done by the time GDEX rolls around in September. I have come to realize that constantly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2018\/04\/25\/questing-questing-the-night-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Questing, questing the night away<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}