{"id":512,"date":"2019-09-05T13:37:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=512"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:37:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:37:47","slug":"fall-or-when-an-old-mans-thoughts-turn-lightly-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2019\/09\/05\/fall-or-when-an-old-mans-thoughts-turn-lightly-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall, or when an old man&#8217;s Thoughts turn lightly to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kicking everyone the #$%^ out and getting some damn dev work done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m busy trying to squeeze in dev time \/ prep for GDEX \/ fix broken stuff around the house and of course; the eternal struggle of what to make for dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also found myself at a bit of a loss &#8211; Oculus isn&#8217;t offering all Start members the same deal as last year for Oculus Connect &#8211; we &#8216;older&#8217; members are being offered a $200 ticket price for Connect this year; which when you add airfare, $300 a night hotel + incidentals &#8211; adds up to waaaay more than this solo dev can afford. I also did not make the Oculus Launch Pad program &#8211; so I&#8217;m feeling a bit down about dev work in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"294\" height=\"235\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hoprabit.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-515\"\/><figcaption>Introducing&#8230; Hop Rabit!<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless&#8230; He kept slogging on. I was helping a fellow VRTK&#8217;er with playtesting his game. Since I didn&#8217;t quite understand everything about his game, and my limited vocab was not getting the message across; I offered to record some gameplay and post it for him. In my usual manner, I jabbered away like a kid on a sugar rush, adding my own narrative as I explained why I was having difficulty in understanding how to operate simple things like buttons and levers. I must have provided enough chuckles because he repeated said I should start a YouTube channel and record myself being a fool while playing various games. Great &#8211; another thing for me to do that I couldn&#8217;t possibly explain to my mother in law. She still can&#8217;t comprehend hats in TF2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"363\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/blc.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-517\"\/><figcaption>Booper Loops cereal!<br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like I&#8217;m still on for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegdex.com\/\">GDEX <\/a>this year &#8211; hoping to up my game with a new banner and using a tablet to capture email addresses instead of the &#8216;paper on a clipboard&#8217; method I&#8217;ve been using.  Hope to get some new enthusiasts and to have my demo up on Steam. I&#8217;m also hoping people can take one of the custom postcards I&#8217;m having done up, courtesy of the Cleveland Game Co-Op. Also need to start updating my site to not allow spambots to flood my email list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps I better get busy then&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kicking everyone the #$%^ out and getting some damn dev work done. I&#8217;m busy trying to squeeze in dev time \/ prep for GDEX \/ fix broken stuff around the house and of course; the eternal struggle of what to make for dinner. I&#8217;ve also found myself at a bit of a loss &#8211; Oculus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2019\/09\/05\/fall-or-when-an-old-mans-thoughts-turn-lightly-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fall, or when an old man&#8217;s Thoughts turn lightly to&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","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\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}