{"id":25905,"date":"2015-02-10T16:54:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T21:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25905"},"modified":"2015-02-10T16:54:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T21:54:57","slug":"experienced-points-graphics-are-sometimes-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25905","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Graphics Are Sometimes Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As luck would have it, a bunch of people all sent in related questions at once, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/12965-Reader-Mail-The-Hard-Thing-About-Graphics\">this week I&#8217;ll answer three different questions about graphics programming<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have much to add to the column, so instead I want to whine that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/strafegame\/strafe\">STRAFE<\/a> isn&#8217;t going to meet its Kickstarter goals, and that makes me really sad.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago on the Diecast I was talking about combining modern lighting with retro-90&#8217;s low-fi graphics. I&#8217;ve actually <a href=\"?p=23547\" title=\"Project Unearth Part 4: Enclosed Solids\">dabbled in that idea myself<\/a>. I&#8217;m sort of obsessed with it. But work will begin again on <a href=\"?p=21973\" title=\"Project Good Robot #30: Interesting-ness\">Good Robot<\/a> very soon, and I expect that will keep me busy enough. I just don&#8217;t have time to work on mixing lighting models with anachronistic graphics styles. Having STRAFE was going to be the next best thing. <\/p>\n<p>Ah well. Maybe in six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As luck would have it, a bunch of people all sent in related questions at once, so this week I&#8217;ll answer three different questions about graphics programming. I don&#8217;t have much to add to the column, so instead I want to whine that STRAFE isn&#8217;t going to meet its Kickstarter goals, and that makes me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25905","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=25905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}