{"id":563,"date":"2020-01-08T14:49:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=563"},"modified":"2020-01-08T14:49:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:49:46","slug":"back-to-work-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2020\/01\/08\/back-to-work-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Work, pal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So with the holidays over, fam back to school and work, the house clean enough that I can ignore the rest, I grab my coffee sit down at the comfy office chair chair my wife got from her job, crack my knuckles with anticipation, lean in, reach for the keyboard annnnd&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the $#!+ was I doing before the holidays began??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting back into the swing of things ain&#8217;t easy. I&#8217;m looking at scribbled notes, my organizer cork board says today is my &#8216;writing&#8217; day. I have a bunch of things to start researching and planning for the year (sorry IndyPopCon, I don&#8217;t have $275 to drop on a exhibitor table this year!) And I have a backlog of other creative work that I need to get done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I DID want to brag about was an idea that I whipped together when my eldest brought home a mini gingerbread house he made in school. I instantly though about preserving it in photogrammetry and on a whim, threw it into Unity and added Booper to the scene:<\/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=\"A Very Booper Christmas!\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptIs9E8GiVc?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>I did start adding the &#8216;VR tunnelling&#8217; effect, an option I&#8217;ll let players choose if they find that the character motion too nauseating. Guess I need to start working on an options menu&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering I&#8217;m going to be applying for grant money, I DO need to get that demo wrapped and looking as polished as possible. I&#8217;m still stuck on that 3rd level and want &#8216;more&#8217; from it: more excitement, more polish and a bolder ending that really leaves players <em>wanting <\/em>more. Time to recruit the niece and nephew for more playtesting&#8230; Oops &#8211; gotta get the Rift I loaned them back to full operating capacity first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with the holidays over, fam back to school and work, the house clean enough that I can ignore the rest, I grab my coffee sit down at the comfy office chair chair my wife got from her job, crack my knuckles with anticipation, lean in, reach for the keyboard annnnd&#8230;. What the $#!+ was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2020\/01\/08\/back-to-work-pal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to Work, pal&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","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\/563","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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}