{"id":1767,"date":"2009-08-07T18:48:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T10:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2009-08-07T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T10:48:41","slug":"game-prototype-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/07\/game-prototype-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Prototype 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I showed my third game prototype to some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interzoneentertainment.com\/\">ex-workmates<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the constructive feedback from everyone who played the game. I&#8217;m not sure that it has super-wide appeal&#8230; but that&#8217;s not really the end goal! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the first two game prototypes (which I decided to stop work on because they didn&#8217;t appeal enough to me) I&#8217;m going to put some more time into fleshing this game out. So there will be an update next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, it&#8217;s been a productive fortnight and it feels great to be working alone &#8211; without the need for external consensus or funding. After an extended period of introspection earlier in the year, I feel that I know what I want to do; or rather, what I <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> want to do.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to waste time working on things that have little intrinsic merit or that I have little interest in. I don&#8217;t want to produce <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shovelware\">shovelware<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t want to do things that have <a href=\"http:\/\/fb.popcap.com\/online-games\/zuma\/\">been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizarrecreations.com\/games\/geometry_wars\/\">done<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snood.com\/\">before<\/a>. Life&#8217;s too short.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/drewfx.com\/\">Andy<\/a> for recently reinvigorating my interest in making games! \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I showed my third game prototype to some ex-workmates today. Thanks for the constructive feedback from everyone who played the game. I&#8217;m not sure that it has super-wide appeal&#8230; but that&#8217;s not really the end goal! \ud83d\ude09 Unlike the first two game prototypes (which I decided to stop work on because they didn&#8217;t appeal enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/07\/game-prototype-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Prototype 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-sv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}