{"id":2050,"date":"2011-06-18T22:17:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T12:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2011-06-18T22:17:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T12:17:32","slug":"goal-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2011\/06\/18\/goal-for-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Goal for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things done today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Player control basically finalised. \u00a0Feeling pretty good about it.<\/li>\n<li>First pass at world generation.<\/li>\n<li>Lots of improvements to VectorStorm&#8217;s Box2D integration.<\/li>\n<li>Discovered that the game idea I&#8217;ve been pursuing this week has been done before. \u00a0Not changing it, though.<\/li>\n<li>Played a couple games of StarCraft 2. \u00a0Should really learn to not do this, especially when I&#8217;m trying to rapidly prototype a game; \u00a0it only winds me up and makes me too tense to code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best bug of the day:<\/p>\n<p>My first revision of the world generation algorithm worked basically correctly, except that for some reason, the world geometry hadn&#8217;t been correctly flagged as static, and so immediately fell off the screen, obeying simple gravity. \u00a0 Oops!<\/p>\n<p>My goal for the remainder of today is to reach a &#8220;first playable&#8221; point where the game is playable from start to end. \u00a0That&#8217;ll leave tomorrow for visuals, sound, and polish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things done today: Player control basically finalised. \u00a0Feeling pretty good about it. First pass at world generation. Lots of improvements to VectorStorm&#8217;s Box2D integration. Discovered that the game idea I&#8217;ve been pursuing this week has been done before. \u00a0Not changing it, though. Played a couple games of StarCraft 2. \u00a0Should really learn to not do&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":[37,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-x4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050"}],"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=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}