{"id":1937,"date":"2015-10-15T17:14:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T21:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2015-10-15T17:14:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T21:14:50","slug":"back-to-unity-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Back to Unity 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my Kickstarter quietly (but I suppose not unexpectedly) failed yesterday, though backers did pledge to contribute $785 of the requested $9,000. Which isn&#8217;t completely horrible for spending no time building an audience. But it wasn&#8217;t nearly enough, so unfortunately there won&#8217;t be a book on melody from me in 2016. Not sure yet if I&#8217;ll try to build an audience and try another Kickstarter later, or if I&#8217;ll find some other way to find the time. But it&#8217;s back to being on the back-burner for now.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, I&#8217;m still learning the ins and outs of <a href=\"http:\/\/unity3d.com\/\">Unity3D<\/a>. I&#8217;m confident I can learn the programming side with more practice and experience; Unity is so much more convenient and intuitive than the engines I fooled around with a bit more than a decade ago in high school. (I could swear I used to understand quaternions when I was in high school. Not that I really need to understand them now, as Unity takes care of them, but I still want to understand them again, if I ever really did.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also not worried about game design. Though I don&#8217;t really have much practical experience with it (beyond daydreaming), it is the fun part of game development. Writing, designing puzzles, storytelling, etc&#8230; Those are what excite me about game development in the first place. I would never have bothered to learn GW-BASIC when I was in elementary school if storytelling through video games didn&#8217;t excite me.<\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t have any experience with is creating art for games. Modeling, texturing, or drawing in general. And since I can&#8217;t afford to hire freelancers, that&#8217;s something I&#8217;m going to have to learn, and a skill I&#8217;d love to have anyway. Though I may try programming a game that features purely abstract shapes to circumvent the need for art, I still want to create adventure games at some point, and those will require some modeling and texturing skills.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s that fun stuff, and of course I&#8217;ve still got some novels I&#8217;m working on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my Kickstarter quietly (but I suppose not unexpectedly) failed yesterday, though backers did pledge to contribute $785 of the requested $9,000. Which isn&#8217;t completely horrible for spending no time building an audience. But it wasn&#8217;t nearly enough, so unfortunately there won&#8217;t be a book on melody from me in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[19],"tags":[702],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-vf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}