{"id":753,"date":"2022-02-16T21:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=753"},"modified":"2022-02-16T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T16:20:51","slug":"winning-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2022\/02\/16\/winning-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning streak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

#WritingWednesday and I just realized I hadn’t posted a blog in like, forever <\/em><\/strong>and seeking to rectify that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let’s show off, shall we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I never had a badge before!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Working backwards – I just got into the finals of the Game Dev World Championship<\/a> and I’m absolutely floored. Can NOT wait until March 15th to find out I didn’t win. but, hey – that’s just my pessimistic side speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the Xmas break – I saw a FaceBook post from a local reporter, Taylor Bruck, who was asking for any ‘feel good’ stories and I rolled the dice and pitched my game, and to my delight, she accepted! She came out to the house, interviewed the kids and myself, shot some video and took a few pix and a few days later, it aired on Spectrum 1 News. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of the Spectrum 1 news story
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Lookit what I done won!
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I also showed my game at the Cleveland Gaming Classic<\/a> back in November and that was a fun one – partially because it didn’t require me to drive 2.5 hours to get there (plus the relief that if I forgot something, I didn’t have to pray that a nearby WalMart had what I needed and was open)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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aww, taking after his dad!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

it was also nice that I got to show the kids what I do, and what these type of conventions are like. Plus they got to play videogames (always a win) and see cool stuff like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pretty sure he shot first<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But it was also nice to branch out to a new expo, meet local people that are also in my dev community and see fellow parents and kids friends, it felt more informal and relaxed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And hey – winning an award for Most Creative didn’t hurt either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other thing, besides the holidays, and kid’s off from school and epic deluges of snow and testing positive for Covid-19 and winter blahs is me deciding I needed to get off my butt and get a product ready to ship. If I’m seriously going to pursue funding, the people who write the checks are going to want to see a track record. And that means shipping titles. So I said to myself: ‘Self? What’s the quickest wat to publish a game? … @#$%^& – I gotta make a MOBILE GAME.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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gotta collect them in order to spell a word<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, since I have a crapton of assets ready to go – lets make this a franchise and ‘educational’ to boot. I had started with calling it ‘Booper Prelude’ but a gave dev friend and mentor suggested that I use ‘Go Booper Go!’ and it has a nice ring to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also figure that when it comes expo time again, I can have a tablet running it and a QR code to the Play Store page so people can drop me a few bucks to help support the VR project as well. Gotta start thinking business stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#WritingWednesday and I just realized I hadn’t posted a blog in like, forever and seeking to rectify that. So let’s show off, shall we? Working backwards – I just got into the finals of the Game Dev World Championship and I’m absolutely floored. Can NOT wait until March 15th to find out I didn’t win. … Continue reading Winning streak<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","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\/753","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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}