{"id":20,"date":"2008-01-08T22:36:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T11:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2008\/01\/08\/game-in-a-week-day-2\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T04:35:32","slug":"game-in-a-week-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/01\/08\/game-in-a-week-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Game in a Week, Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/windowsbloom.png\" title=\"Bloom working on Windows!\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/windowsbloom.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Bloom working on Windows!\" \/><\/a>So it&#8217;s been an interesting, stressful day today!  But the first and most important thing to mention is that I&#8217;ve gotten the bloom effect (repeatedly mentioned earlier) to compile and work correctly under Windows.  I&#8217;ve also set up the engine to automatically detect whether or not it can use the bloom effect;  whether it&#8217;s running on a computer that supports the needed OpenGL extensions.  This means that I&#8217;ll be able to include the bloom effect in <em>Damsel<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided that at least my initial pre-prototype of <em>Damsel<\/em> will be done in VectorStorm.  Thankfully, VectorStorm and GemStorm have interfaces that are similar enough that if I eventually decide that I do actually need bitmapped images, then it&#8217;ll be pretty easy to swap over.  But for now, I&#8217;m planning to use good old-fashioned vector graphics.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been hoping to get ahead of schedule and get a headstart on a real gameplay prototype today, but in the end I decided that getting the bloom working would be worth the time, and now that I&#8217;ve done it I&#8217;m really glad that I did;  it really makes vector graphics look much nicer and more professional, and I&#8217;m still on track with my original schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, it&#8217;s probably time for me to get some rest now;   got a long day tomorrow, and I&#8217;ll need to put together that rough initial gameplay prototype at the end of it!  I&#8217;m definitely going to need my rest for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s been an interesting, stressful day today! But the first and most important thing to mention is that I&#8217;ve gotten the bloom effect (repeatedly mentioned earlier) to compile and work correctly under Windows. I&#8217;ve also set up the engine to automatically detect whether or not it can use the bloom effect; whether it&#8217;s running&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":[18,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}