{"id":535,"date":"2019-09-30T15:25:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=535"},"modified":"2019-09-30T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:25:54","slug":"there-is-no-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2019\/09\/30\/there-is-no-game\/","title":{"rendered":"tHERE IS NO GAME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That image has always struck a chord with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where this phrase came from &#8211; but when I saw this drawing, it kept nibbling at the dark recesses of my brain. I had turned it over, puzzling it out until I was trying to take a nap, and a daydream-ish vison came to me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Booper, just in a sea of white, and no way to see where you are. Kinda like Morpheus in &#8216;The Matrix&#8217; when he introduces Neo to the construct: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Matrix&quot; (1999) -- &#039;Construct&#039; Scenes\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AGZiLMGdCE0?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Except- its a maze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And my daydream was that the only way you can find your way out is by walking. And as you walk, you leave footprints. I&#8217;m not sure if the walks would simply be invisible and the player would have to run into them and see they could go no further; or if the maze was high up and falling off the edges was instant failure and restart at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, my kiddo LOVES drawing mazes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I grabbed one, a quick one he made on his Boogie Board that I managed to photograph before he deleted it, and cleaned it up in Photoshop, then ran it through the Cubester add-on for Blender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"910\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mazeAND3d-910x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mazeAND3d-910x1024.jpg 910w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mazeAND3d-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mazeAND3d-768x864.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mazeAND3d-1365x1536.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mazeAND3d-1820x2048.jpg 1820w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mazeAND3d.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><figcaption>original drawing above \/  3d output below<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also just got the latest Unity Humble Bundle, which has the Aura2 asset &#8211; and its VR compatible. So I quick added some fog and BAM! &#8211; I have the start of a new level. I just gotta figure out where it fits in story-wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Early experiment of the &#039;There is No Game&#039; level\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QzU7x1B0VCQ?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>edit &#8211; my youngest solve part of the mystery. There Is No Game came from the days they were addicted to online Flash games (most notably, &#8216;Red Ball&#8217;) and they had discovered one called,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coolmathgames.com\/0-there-is-no-game\"> &#8216;There Is No Game&#8217; <\/a>&#8211; its a lot of fun; you should give it a spin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That image has always struck a chord with me. I&#8217;m not sure where this phrase came from &#8211; but when I saw this drawing, it kept nibbling at the dark recesses of my brain. I had turned it over, puzzling it out until I was trying to take a nap, and a daydream-ish vison came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2019\/09\/30\/there-is-no-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">tHERE IS NO GAME<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","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\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}