{"id":8281,"date":"2010-06-11T08:15:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8281"},"modified":"2010-06-11T08:25:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T13:25:21","slug":"stolen-pixels-202-ur-afk-np","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8281","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #202: UR AFK? NP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7680-Stolen-Pixels-202-UR-AFK-NP\">This comic is about playing online games when you don&#8217;t have access to the computer<\/a>, which is apparently a thing that people want to do?<\/p>\n<p>Some behind-the-scenes stuff below:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhat I <em>really<\/em> wanted to do for this comic was to have the gamer down a well.  Like, a traditional  bucket-filling well. He would just be shouting combat directions from the bottom.  Seemed like an easy thing to set up, until I tried to find a well somewhere in Half-Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, or Counter Strike and discovered that there aren&#8217;t any. <\/p>\n<p>I suppose the cliffhanger turned out better in the end since you could see it was the same guy.  Just having word bubbles coming out of a well and conversing with a new character might have been momentarily confusing and blunted the punchline.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious, the first frame was taken in the set I constructed. (This level also houses Studio 17, where the Breen show is shot.) The second is the very first level of Half Life 2 in the dark hallway leading to the cafeteria. (I added lights, of course.) The last frame was taken in Half Life 2: Episode 2, in the stretch of driving just before the crashed pod and the farm. (The frame was flipped so I wouldn&#8217;t have to cross the word bubbles.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comic is about playing online games when you don&#8217;t have access to the computer, which is apparently a thing that people want to do? Some behind-the-scenes stuff below:<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-8281","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\/8281","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=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}