{"id":175,"date":"2015-02-09T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T00:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamantyr.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2015-02-09T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T00:10:49","slug":"burn-baby-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/09\/burn-baby-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn baby burn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the spell is done!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/toagruXKZKw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how much effort went into getting only a few seconds of action on the screen, but wow it&#8217;s beautiful!<\/p>\n<p>As part of my efforts, I also am making a few changes to how orientation is determined&#8230; I originally was going to have it random, but I realized that would be a disconnection from on screen, where you may move your party into a mob, or get attacked in turn from a particular direction. So I altered things a bit so the direction is determined that way.<\/p>\n<p>Another aspect is the ambush. I realized belatedly that the Ultima mob methodology (where you see them and they move towards you) doesn&#8217;t work with ambushes because, well, you SEE them. How can they surprise you? So I&#8217;m redesigning it so that at times, hidden monsters are placed on the map and if you trigger them, it&#8217;s an ambush situation.<\/p>\n<p>Work continues on the next set of spell effects, which includes a cone effect and a wall effect&#8230; I&#8217;ll want to test out all 64 spells individually to make sure they&#8217;re all satisfactory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the spell is done! It&#8217;s amazing how much effort went into getting only a few seconds of action on the screen, but wow it&#8217;s beautiful! As part of my efforts, I also am making a few changes to how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/09\/burn-baby-burn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":""},"categories":[4,5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crpg","category-design","category-ti-994a","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgaeMJ-2P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}