{"id":40,"date":"2011-03-09T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T14:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-03-09T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:49:15","slug":"on-a-more-positive-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/2011\/03\/09\/on-a-more-positive-note\/","title":{"rendered":"On a more positive note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is no good at all. Get a blog, immediately start whinging. There are <em>good<\/em> things about making games, especially when you&#8217;re making them on your own terms.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t mention before is that in between the dull&#8230; dull.. tedium&#8230; dull&#8230; repetition&#8230; are GLORIOUS MOMENTS OF AMAZINGNESS! Bask in them! <em>Baaaaaaask!<\/em> Let&#8217;s take a moment for admiration and pride (and coffee) before&#8230; dull&#8230; dull&#8230; tedium&#8230; dull&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And obviously while you&#8217;re doing the bit of modelling which most resembles sculpture (i.e. absolutely nothing to do with UV co-ordinates or vetex bone weights, etc.), everything is peachy and you have to tear yourself away from it or you&#8217;ll starve to death. And that happens for 2D art too &#8211; for maybe the first two or three animations you make. Less so after twenty, thirty, forty of the buggers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a shame that all those fun tasks tend to be towards the beginning of a project so that you run out of them with about two-thirds of development\u00a0still ahead of you.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in between re-exporting things, looking at numbers to see whether one or more numbers is incorrect, and clicking my mouse button at various X and Y locations in DPaint Animation while\u00a0occasionally\u00a0pressing &#8216;[&#8216; and &#8216;]&#8217; to cycle the selected palette colour, I played around in C#. I love C#. It&#8217;s just so <em>immediate<\/em> &#8211; there&#8217;s something ever so pleasing about a nicely laid out dialog box with buttons to click and lists to scroll.<\/p>\n<p>My funky little app is going to be brillopops. It has a particularly nice About box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is no good at all. Get a blog, immediately start whinging. There are good things about making games, especially when you&#8217;re making them on your own terms. What I didn&#8217;t mention before is that in between the dull&#8230; dull.. tedium&#8230; dull&#8230; repetition&#8230; are GLORIOUS MOMENTS OF AMAZINGNESS! Bask in them! Baaaaaaask! Let&#8217;s take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p326tq-E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}