{"id":332,"date":"2018-07-21T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2018-07-21T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T16:45:34","slug":"my-quiet-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"My Quiet Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been up to since the Silicon Void Kickstarter failed last August:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I did some contract work for Spry Fox, who kindly employed me part-time for six months while I looked for my next long term job.<\/li>\n<li>I found my next long term job with Tactile Entertainment, a small mobile games studio&#8230; located in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/li>\n<li>I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark. This included traveling with a cat on an 11 hour direct flight from San Francisco. She cried the whole time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three months later, I am more or less settled in to my new European lifestyle and starting to feel refreshed enough to think about Silicon Void again. I played v0.2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.itch.io\/siliconvoid\">still available on itch<\/a>!) from start to finish this past week and was pleasantly surprised at how good it felt. Certainly there are a lot of balance and pacing problems that need to be addressed, but I didn&#8217;t want to throw out huge chunks of work as I was afraid I would.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a long while still before I can add the next chapter but I hope to find some time over the next few months to improve what&#8217;s there. Some of my goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two difficulty options with different enemy encounters. It&#8217;s always going to be a game mostly about combat, but with some distance I can see there&#8217;s value in being able to get through the combat with less friction and see the story.<\/li>\n<li>Support Metal instead of OpenGL on Mac, since Apple announced that OpenGL support will be deprecated eventually. (I have some shader compatibility problems with Metal right now.)<\/li>\n<li>Revamp the upgrade and research systems &amp; UI so they don&#8217;t just list a huge number of vague things you can&#8217;t do yet.<\/li>\n<li>Camera controls while orbiting planets so you can get a better view of your surroundings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for this blog, I don&#8217;t have any JRPG combat system analyses in the pipeline &#8211; I was surprised to find that I had nothing interesting whatsoever to say about Bravely Default when I finally played it &#8211; but I have some ideas that branch out into other game genres, including my old hobby horse Metal Gear Solid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been up to since the Silicon Void Kickstarter failed last August: I did some contract work for Spry Fox, who kindly employed me part-time for six months while I looked for my next long term job. I found my next long term job with Tactile Entertainment, a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/?p=332\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","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=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorshrugs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}