{"id":105,"date":"2008-03-20T22:16:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T11:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2008\/03\/20\/another-quick-update\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T22:28:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T11:28:51","slug":"another-quick-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/03\/20\/another-quick-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Another quick update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a very quick note that due to a recent spate of hot weather and an extremely busy work schedule, I&#8217;ve been feeling pretty run down for the last week, and so didn&#8217;t feel up to starting a &#8220;Game in a Week&#8221; this week, as I&#8217;d suggested earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, things should be slowing down an awful lot over the coming weeks.  I&#8217;ll either do the &#8220;Game in a Week&#8221;, or maybe I&#8217;ll try to do something faster;  maybe the first step in a larger project.  Not sure yet.  I&#8217;ll think about it tomorrow, when I&#8217;m more awake.  :)<\/p>\n<p>For those watching the svn repo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.box2d.org\/\">Box2D<\/a> 2.0.0 is now integrated with VectorStorm (with my own bugfix to work around a joint deletion issue;\u00a0 hopefully an official fix for it will be coming soon!)<\/p>\n<p>Projects I&#8217;ve been considering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Another Game in a Week<\/li>\n<li>A &#8220;Game in a Week&#8221;-style affair that&#8217;s compressed into just four days, to be done over the long Easter weekend.<\/li>\n<li>Implementing the &#8220;dinner party&#8221; game I discussed during the &#8220;Game in a Week&#8221; where I implemented Thunderstorm;\u00a0 the little platformer which used the guests at a fancy soir\u00e9e as the level geometry.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve also been thinking about procedurally generated games.\u00a0 One possibility I&#8217;ve been thinking about more and more is a little game concept that I call &#8220;Every Shooter&#8221;, which generates a new shoot &#8217;em up every time you choose &#8220;Play Game&#8221;;\u00a0 it randomly generates enemies, a player, and selects from amongst a large set of individual rules and control schemes to generate a unique shooter game each time you play.\u00a0 This would be a much larger undertaking;\u00a0 if I was to start on this, the first week would probably be taken just writing the basic random enemy generation systems..<\/li>\n<li>Also on the &#8220;procedurally generated games&#8221; point, I&#8217;ve been playing with the idea of algorithmically generated murder mysteries, which would be set inside randomly generated &#8220;worlds&#8221; (initially, isolated old mansions, and other &#8220;locked room&#8221; variants), in which the player would have to interview suspects and work out who was the murderer.\u00a0 This also would be a much larger undertaking;\u00a0 a week&#8217;s work on this might yield a good &#8220;isolated old mansion&#8221; generator.\u00a0 Though I&#8217;ve never really done anything like this before, so it may turn out to be much quicker than I expect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a very quick note that due to a recent spate of hot weather and an extremely busy work schedule, I&#8217;ve been feeling pretty run down for the last week, and so didn&#8217;t feel up to starting a &#8220;Game in a Week&#8221; this week, as I&#8217;d suggested earlier. Luckily, things should be slowing down an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-1H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}