{"id":249,"date":"2017-04-26T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:59:09","slug":"announcing-silicon-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Silicon Void"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announced the indie game I&#8217;ve been working on and referencing vaguely on this blog for the past year! It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvoid.com\">Silicon Void<\/a>, and you can watch the announcement trailer right here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Silicon Void - Announcement Trailer\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tT76fIPSBoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, it&#8217;s <em>aesthetically<\/em>\u00a0quite different from Chrono Cross, but hopefully you recognize the mechanical similarities if you look at the UI:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_250\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screenshot-v0_0_1-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-image-250 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screenshot-v0_0_1-4-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screenshot-v0_0_1-4-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screenshot-v0_0_1-4-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screenshot-v0_0_1-4-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screenshot-v0_0_1-4.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Translation hint: CPU = stamina.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to finally putting my money where my mouth is and showing some of my own combat system ideas instead of just dissecting other games. Once the pre-alpha demo is ready to play, I&#8217;ll start blogging about things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why\u00a0Hit% <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> reset when you change the active character<\/li>\n<li>The tradeoffs when using Defend\u00a0vs Charge in between actions<\/li>\n<li>How to level up abilities by 1) equipping them and then 2) not equipping them<\/li>\n<li>That\u00a0thing\u00a0in the upper left that looks like Simon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Later this summer I&#8217;ll be launching a Kickstarter to fund the next two years of Silicon Void&#8217;s development. Between now and then, I&#8217;ll be doing everything I can to increase the odds of the campaign&#8217;s success by releasing\u00a0the demo, and posting regular updates to this blog and the game&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SiliconVoidGame\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SiliconVoidGame\">Facebook <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCpSIoSPSy5hflWq6_JpRw2A\">Youtube<\/a>\u00a0channels.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you have been following this RSS feed in one form or another for more than a decade, and I appreciate your support over the years. Making this game real is going to be the most challenging thing I&#8217;ve ever done, and I hope you&#8217;ll help me by spreading the word to people who like Chrono Cross, people who like RPGs, people who like games, and people who like seeing things blow up in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announced the indie game I&#8217;ve been working on and referencing vaguely on this blog for the past year! It&#8217;s called Silicon Void, and you can watch the announcement trailer right here: As you can see, it&#8217;s aesthetically\u00a0quite different from Chrono Cross, but hopefully you recognize the mechanical similarities&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/?p=249\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silicon-void"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}