{"author_name":"Hamumu","cat":"LD #13 - Roads - 2008","comments":[{"author_name":"george","time":"December 6, 2008 7:59 am","epoch":1228568340,"text":"Sounds great!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1228564260,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"74379","p_author":"Hamumu","p_authorkey":"11","p_urlkey":"110211","p_title":"Saturday Morning, First Screen","p_cat":"LD #13 - Roads - 2008","p_event":"LD13","p_time":"1228564260","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"11","us_name":"Hamumu","us_username":"hamumu","event_start":"1228435200","event_key":"92","event_name":"LD13"},"text":"

\"Sat<\/a> I have a functioning screen that you can press ESC on, and a font that prints!\u00a0 It’s miraculous!<\/p>\n

I bounced zillions of ideas around last night, never found anything that struck me square in the face until I gave a moment’s thought to Night Of The Cephalopods.\u00a0 It’s not a very good game, and I don’t think it does anything very impressive in the realm it sets out to impress in, but it’s a fun idea: having the game narrate things as the player does them.<\/p>\n

Well, my game is no action game, in fact it’s a point & click adventure.\u00a0 So narrating that is more akin to building a story that is being read to the player, based on their actions.<\/p>\n

Or in this case…. a poem.<\/p>\n

I chose this project because it will be *extremely* easy technically, yet a huge challenge in terms of content.\u00a0 I’m going to have to invent rhyming lines that work in various sequences so that any path you take continues to conform to the poem’s meter.\u00a0 Basically, I chose a project that I will have fun making as opposed to something you will have fun playing.\u00a0 But it’ll probably amuse you a time or two.\u00a0 It’ll certainly be interesting.<\/p>\n

So prepare yourself for Two Roads: An Interactive Poem.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: narration<\/a>, poem<\/a>, roads<\/a>, screenshot<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 6th, 2008 6:51 am","title":"Saturday Morning, First Screen"}