{"id":1444,"date":"2010-07-18T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T23:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2010-07-18T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T23:10:16","slug":"ages-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2010\/07\/18\/ages-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Ages back.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early days of this \u00a0web log, I wrote a short series of articles about &#8220;awesome&#8221; game ideas, as distinct from &#8220;good&#8221; game ideas. \u00a0One of the three game concepts I put forward in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2008\/04\/21\/how-to-design-an-awesome-game-part-two-dime-a-dozen-ideas\/#more-135\">that series<\/a> was this: \u00a0&#8220;A platform game where the player may drastically grow and shrink at will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, imagine my surprise to find that somebody&#8217;s independently designed and implemented a prototype of that game! \u00a0(Warning: \u00a0requires the <a href=\"http:\/\/unity3d.com\/\">Unity<\/a> browser plug-in) \u00a0 I&#8217;m thrilled to see how well the concept works in practice, and doubly-thrilled that I didn&#8217;t have to build it myself, to get that validation. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n<p>I wish there were more levels and more polish, but as a proof of concept, I think it really, really works.<\/p>\n<p>Link: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/online\/games\/platformer\/specter-spelunker-shrinks\/1865\/\">Specter Spelunker Shrinks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early days of this \u00a0web log, I wrote a short series of articles about &#8220;awesome&#8221; game ideas, as distinct from &#8220;good&#8221; game ideas. \u00a0One of the three game concepts I put forward in that series was this: \u00a0&#8220;A platform game where the player may drastically grow and shrink at will.&#8221; Well, imagine&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":[20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-ni","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444"}],"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=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}