{"id":29,"date":"2008-01-13T15:07:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T04:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2008\/01\/13\/game-in-a-week-t-minus-9-hours\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T15:34:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T04:34:26","slug":"game-in-a-week-t-minus-9-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/01\/13\/game-in-a-week-t-minus-9-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Game in a Week, T minus 9 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three hours on, here&#8217;s where I&#8217;m at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed a bunch of gameplay bugs, a few of them causing spectacular crashes (but these were all the usual corner-cases where you expect to find crashes..  respawning after dying while in the middle of using a petition was one of these, for example).<\/li>\n<li>Tuned time bonuses so that individual games now tend to last about two to three minutes for me.  I&#8217;m sure that if you went in really trying to play as long as possible, rather than just having fun, that you could probably play infinitely.  But I don&#8217;t really have time to do proper play tuning and difficulty ramping for a release tonight, and I don&#8217;t want the game to be too difficult for first-time players.  So I&#8217;m erring on the side of &#8216;accessible&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;How to Play&#8221; screen implemented.  I like it a lot, even if the code is shocking.  I&#8217;m going to have to put an apology in the file, when I release the code.<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted VectorStorm&#8217;s initial resolution selection code (for the very first run only).  VectorStorm now tries to initialise a resolution of 800&#215;600, instead of choosing the smallest supported fullscreen resolution.  If the current hardware doesn&#8217;t support 800&#215;600, it will choose the next smallest resolution supported.  If nothing under 800&#215;600 is supported, then it will choose the smallest resolution that is supported.  The resolution can still be changed from the options screen.<\/li>\n<li>Added a &#8220;back&#8221; option from the options screen, so people don&#8217;t have to guess the &#8216;q&#8217; keymapping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stuff that remains to be done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Custom graphics for three different characters<\/li>\n<li>Polish title screen<\/li>\n<li>Sound effects<\/li>\n<li>As much gameplay tuning as I can manage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three hours on, here&#8217;s where I&#8217;m at: Fixed a bunch of gameplay bugs, a few of them causing spectacular crashes (but these were all the usual corner-cases where you expect to find crashes.. respawning after dying while in the middle of using a petition was one of these, for example). Tuned time bonuses so that&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-t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"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=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}