{"id":359,"date":"2017-10-26T21:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/?p=359"},"modified":"2022-03-31T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T09:11:54","slug":"a-picture-of-things-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"A picture of things to come&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crop.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-362\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crop-292x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crop-292x300.png 292w, https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/crop.png 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;maybe.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still very early work in progress, despite being in development for 1.5 years. I easily get tangled up in technical engine stuff so there&#8217;s not much of an actual game yet, although there are other games you can play, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/studybreaks.com\/college\/mobile-slots-study-break\/\">mobile slots<\/a> you can find online, which are really great to play and make money online.<\/p>\n<p>The engine procedurally generates isometric tiles and renders them to textures. The actual engine is entirely in 2d, although for various effects, pseudo-3d information is calculated.<\/p>\n<p>My vision for this is to become a single player RPG mixing elements from old-school JRPGs, WOW and Diablo, while trying not to focus too much on combat but story and exploration instead.<\/p>\n<p>If the engine turns out to be flexible enough, I&#8217;d love to develop this into some sort of platform for further stories taking place in the same universe.<\/p>\n<p>The engine so far is written entirely in c++, features a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lua.org\/\">Lua <\/a>interface for everything game-related and relies on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libsdl.org\">SDL <\/a>\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opengl.org\">OpenGL <\/a>for rendering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">powered by<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.libsdl.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.libsdl.org\/media\/SDL_logo.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengl.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.opengl.org\/img\/opengl_logo.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boost.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/www.boost.org\/doc\/libs\/1_65_1\/boost.png\" width=\"177\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lua.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.lua.org\/images\/lua.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlite.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlite.org\/images\/sqlite370_banner.gif\" width=\"120\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;maybe. It&#8217;s still very early work in progress, despite being in development for 1.5 years. I easily get tangled up in technical engine stuff so there&#8217;s not much of an actual game yet, although there are other games you can play, such as mobile slots you can find online, which are really great to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-design","category-unnamed-rpg-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancor.ch\/schoebey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}