{"id":1177,"date":"2007-06-04T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2007-11-03T08:48:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T13:48:58","slug":"narbacular-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Narbacular Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width='400'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/nd_portal.jpg' class='insetimage' width='400' alt='The portal in action: Both of those characters are the player.  Go in one portal, seamlessly exit the other.  This is a pretty simple setup, but when you start mucking about with portals on the floors, ceilings, or at strange angles, it suddenly becomes very confusing. In a good way.' title='The portal in action: Both of those characters are the player.  Go in one portal, seamlessly exit the other.  This is a pretty simple setup, but when you start mucking about with portals on the floors, ceilings, or at strange angles, it suddenly becomes very confusing. In a good way.'\/><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class='insetcaption'>The portal in action: Both of those characters are the player.  Go in one portal, seamlessly exit the other.  This is a pretty simple setup, but when you start mucking about with portals on the floors, ceilings, or at strange angles, it suddenly becomes very confusing. In a good way.<\/td><\/tr><\/table>However did I miss this one? <a href=\"?p=518\">Last year<\/a> I talked about Portals, expressing excitement at such a great idea and then lamenting how the thing would only be available via <a href=\"?p=95\">Steam<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t do Steam, so I was going to miss out.  I didn&#8217;t really want the game itself, I just wanted to experiment with the portals. <\/p>\n<p>While reading up on the game I found out that a couple of the designers had <em>already<\/em> made a portal game &#8211; using pretty much exactly the same mechanics &#8211; as a project for their portfolios.  The game is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com\/narbaculardrop.html\">Narbacular Drop<\/a>, and it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com\/narbaculardrop.html?downloads.html\">freely available<\/a>. This let me play around with the portals idea without having to get another Steam-based game. <\/p>\n<p>It really was a lot of fun to mess around with the portals.  It&#8217;s a small download, and a great way to kill an hour or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The portal in action: Both of those characters are the player. Go in one portal, seamlessly exit the other. This is a pretty simple setup, but when you start mucking about with portals on the floors, ceilings, or at strange angles, it suddenly becomes very confusing. In a good way.However did I miss this one? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,24],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-portal","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}