{"id":18629,"date":"2013-02-01T12:42:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=18629"},"modified":"2013-02-01T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T22:39:45","slug":"experienced-points-procedural-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=18629","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Procedural Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes,! I&#8217;m writing Experienced Points again! This week&#8217;s column is on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/10168-Procedural-Stories\" title=\"Procedural Stories\">Procedural Stories<\/a>. Perversely, the entire article is actually a response to a tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>folks, is there anyone writing procedural code for story\/quest generation? \/@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shamusyoung\">shamusyoung<\/a> @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miguelcepero\">miguelcepero<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Garumoo (@garumoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garumoo\/status\/292162431248125952\">January 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the time, I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garumoo\">garumoo<\/a> @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miguelcepero\">miguelcepero<\/a> Allow me some amusement of asking such a question within Twitter. I&#8217;ll see if I can devise an answer. But not here.:)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shamus Young (@shamusyoung) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shamusyoung\/status\/292543743091949569\">January 19, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big topic, and like I said in the article, it&#8217;s either trivial or impossible, depending on your definition of story. <\/p>\n<p>This is actually a very rare sort of question.  One of the quirks with procedural stuff is that people don&#8217;t usually imagine other things that procedural development <em>could<\/em> do. They think of procedural stuff in terms of what it&#8217;s already done in the past, and new techniques for new content tend to take people by surprise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes,! I&#8217;m writing Experienced Points again! This week&#8217;s column is on Procedural Stories. Perversely, the entire article is actually a response to a tweet: folks, is there anyone writing procedural code for story\/quest generation? \/@shamusyoung @miguelcepero &mdash; Garumoo (@garumoo) January 18, 2013 At the time, I replied: @garumoo @miguelcepero Allow me some amusement of asking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[136,155],"class_list":["post-18629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-escapist","tag-experienced-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629","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=18629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}