{"id":375,"date":"2018-08-01T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=375"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:33:03","slug":"375","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2018\/08\/01\/375\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;figures.<\/p>\n<p>only just added it (knockback force) and I get knocked into the stratosphere<br \/>\nand kiddo needs me<br \/>\nstory of my (dev) life &#8211; just as progress might be made&#8230; interuption<br \/>\nforget everything I&#8217;m doing<br \/>\ncome back later only to see fragements of what I was doing<br \/>\ntry and piece it back toghether&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Straight dialogue copied from a conversation on the Playmaker Slack channel.<\/p>\n<p>Since the ending of summer camp, I&#8217;ve been with both kiddos full time until the 21st of August. So instead of non-stop running around for summer camp, speech therapy, swim lessons, social camp and some weird need for my wife to visit with ever other 2nd cousin each weekend, I am now dealing with 2 boys (5 &amp; 7) with too much energy, too little to do and an abundance of &#8216;irritate the $#~!+ outta daddy&#8217; syndrome. It doesn&#8217;t help that the youngest has been repeatedly getting up at 6AM and thusly cutting into what little dev time I have.<\/p>\n<p>Add to this pressure &#8211; Oculus sent an invite to Oculus Connect 5, pay for the conference, 2 nights hotel and a dev dinner. I just have to get there basically. Which means I NEED to have a tip-top demo that I can show off to the best in the VR biz and then fly home &#8211; turn around a day later &#8211; and drive to Columbus to show my game at GDEX again.<\/p>\n<p>Which means every time I step near a computer, kids wake up from the deepest sleep, cats suddenly need to be petted like they are getting put to sleep in 5 minutes, every drinking and gaming buddy I&#8217;ve ever spent 5 minutes with seems to feel like its the most vital thing in the world to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Arg.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime &#8211; I AM kinda, sorta plugging away at things &#8211; feel like the boss level isn&#8217;t going in the direction I want, and the wife isn&#8217;t the biggest fan of &#8216;fights&#8217; in games &#8211; so I&#8217;m working on a racing challenge:<\/p>\n<p>Get an ice cream cone back to a sad little girl before it melts.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an initial test of the idea:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ice Cream can be picked up and carried\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EEUaZZN4HpU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In addition to that &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking about adding achievements to the game, in the form of hidden objects:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spoiler Alert! We have achievements!\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2LxygnMbcLE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;figures. only just added it (knockback force) and I get knocked into the stratosphere and kiddo needs me story of my (dev) life &#8211; just as progress might be made&#8230; interuption forget everything I&#8217;m doing come back later only to see fragements of what I was doing try and piece it back toghether&#8221; Straight dialogue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2018\/08\/01\/375\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","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\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}