{"id":51,"date":"2008-01-26T21:17:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T10:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2008\/01\/26\/muncher-first-playable\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T21:19:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T10:19:20","slug":"muncher-first-playable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/01\/26\/muncher-first-playable\/","title":{"rendered":"Muncher, first playable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/muncherfirstplayable.png\" title=\"Muncher, first playable\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/muncherfirstplayable.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Muncher, first playable\" \/><\/a> Well,  I did it!  From initial concept to fully playable prototype in just one day.  (And I even still have several hours left in the day!  But I think I&#8217;ll take a little time off to watch Iron Chef, which I taped earlier today)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to give away the gameplay, except to say that I think this is one of the most fun games I&#8217;ve written in an awfully long time, and that I think it would extend into a more fully scaled game rather easily.  And that the game is played to a finite time limit;  the player has infinite lives.<\/p>\n<p>Stuff that remains to be done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Music (if any;  not sure if it&#8217;s appropriate for this game)<\/li>\n<li>Sound (need a lot of sound effects for this game)<\/li>\n<li>Title screen menu (I&#8217;ll probably blatantly steal the Asteroids one again)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;How to play&#8221; screen.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Story&#8221; screen.<\/li>\n<li>General polish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking very good for the release tomorrow.  I might do another hour&#8217;s work on it later tonight, but for right now,\u00a0<em>Allez Cuisine!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I did it! From initial concept to fully playable prototype in just one day. (And I even still have several hours left in the day! But I think I&#8217;ll take a little time off to watch Iron Chef, which I taped earlier today) I&#8217;m not going to give away the gameplay, except to say&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":[19,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}