{"id":20,"date":"2009-02-09T23:33:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T07:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdmer.wordpress.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-02-09T23:33:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T07:33:59","slug":"global-game-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenpugh.ca\/blog\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Global Game Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weekends ago I participated in the Global Game Jam along with some fellow students at the MDM program.  We all spent 48 hours working with other game design enthusiasts around the world making games.\u00a0 You can check out the games at <a title=\"Global Game Jam\" href=\"http:\/\/globalgamejam.org\" target=\"_blank\">globalgamejam.org<\/a> The team I forged with created a game called <a href=\"http:\/\/globalgamejam.org\/games\/slast\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Slast&#8221;<\/a> using the <a href=\"http:\/\/unity3d.com\/\">Unity<\/a> Engine.\u00a0 For most of us on the team that meant we were learning an engine and creating a game at the same time.\u00a0 I used the time to do some scripting for the spikes as well as getting a chance to step out of the programmer role and try some 3D Modelling and art.\u00a0 It was quite fun and I liked designing it alongside the modeller who did the Giant Spider.\u00a0 Keep in mind the name of our group when you play it as none of us were real artists on the team, but we still came up with something decent.<\/p>\n<p>As far as Unity goes, I would definitely use it again sometime.\u00a0 It is quite handy and has lots of features.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve used the Blender open source game engine and would say that Unity is better than Blender since the interface is unified (a lot of the shortcut keys are similar to Maya) and it exports so well to many interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weekends ago I participated in the Global Game Jam along with some fellow students at the MDM program. We all spent 48 hours working with other game design enthusiasts around the world making games.\u00a0 You can check out the games at globalgamejam.org The team I forged with created a game called &#8220;Slast&#8221; using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-designing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenpugh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenpugh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenpugh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenpugh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenpugh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevenpugh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenpugh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenpugh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenpugh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}