{"id":85,"date":"2008-02-21T21:16:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T10:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2008\/02\/21\/inspiration-strikes\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T15:45:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T04:45:46","slug":"inspiration-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/02\/21\/inspiration-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I got home after work tonight, and realised that I was out of fresh milk.   So I decided to wander down to the corner shops to buy milk, and as I walked, I thought about cloud-based game designs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/cloud.png\" title=\"Cloud concept image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/cloud.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Cloud concept image\" \/><\/a>And during that walk, I think I finally broke through, and came up with a real game mechanic.  It&#8217;s reasonably simple and easy to code, and I&#8217;m hoping to have a gameplay prototype worked out by tomorrow night.   The screenshot here is just a quick rendering test, experimenting with cloud rendering.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in the actual game, clouds will be a bit more rounded off than these rectangles;  this was just a test of the basic concept.  And yes, it&#8217;s rendering using ordinary VectorStorm rendering.  It&#8217;s rendering normally instead of additively, and with the bloom shader turned off.  And with an overlay for the sky, and for each cloud, to make the nice gradients.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I&#8217;ll have a much more representative screenshot to show off tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I got home after work tonight, and realised that I was out of fresh milk. So I decided to wander down to the corner shops to buy milk, and as I walked, I thought about cloud-based game designs. And during that walk, I think I finally broke through, and came up with a real&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":[22,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-1n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}