{"id":1766,"date":"2010-11-22T19:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T08:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2010-11-22T23:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:31:56","slug":"gui-takes-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2010\/11\/22\/gui-takes-time\/","title":{"rendered":"GUI takes time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1767\" title=\"Dots\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dots-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dots-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dots.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a>So here&#8217;s the fun thing. \u00a0The screenshot today doesn&#8217;t look much different than the one yesterday, and yet there&#8217;s been about ten hours invested in it. \u00a0That time is mostly hidden inside the clock at the bottom center, which has some fairly complicated interactions with touch controls, much improved over the clock you could see in previous photos (which was limited to 15-minute increments). \u00a0Also, there are now some spheres. \u00a0But they&#8217;re just quick placeholders; not real artwork by any stretch of the imagination. \u00a0Also new today is lighting; \u00a0previously, everything was being flat shaded. \u00a0(The nifty gradient you see is an artefact of the photography. \u00a0A big TODO for me in the future is to work out how to make the game actually render with a cool gradient like the ones in the photos.)<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, it&#8217;s kind of tricky to make that clock appear at an unobtrusive size on the iPad, without making it ridiculously tiny on an iPhone. \u00a0In the end, I&#8217;ll probably have to lay out the main game screen separately for the two platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I&#8217;ll post more about the game itself once I&#8217;ve finished amusing myself by giving increasingly unsubtle hints about what it could possibly be. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s the fun thing. \u00a0The screenshot today doesn&#8217;t look much different than the one yesterday, and yet there&#8217;s been about ten hours invested in it. \u00a0That time is mostly hidden inside the clock at the bottom center, which has some fairly complicated interactions with touch controls, much improved over the clock you could see&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":[24,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-su","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766"}],"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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}