{"id":174,"date":"2025-02-16T08:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:28:25","slug":"things-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/things-to-find-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to find out"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Things to find out<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>And here be a probably large and certainly disorganised list of, yes, &#8220;Things to find out&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Piha &#8211; the up bit &#8211; and the crossed sticks on the path&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A critter log<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A plant log<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A geology log<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doorway lighting (and general other stuff like that) in Vikings &#8211; but also Lord of the Rings&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lighting in general in LOTR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Setting up a mood &#8211; e.g. how does Vikings do it? Music, atmosphere etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transition shots &#8211; visions and dreams&nbsp; &#8211; the credits, from under the sea looking up&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ADD THIS IN:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a 2d game engine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>grid\/tile based<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>grid based (g.e. rogue-like)\/free movement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>multiple levels<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>persistent items &#8211; a separate layer of items\/objects\/walls etc. that is updatable, based on the circumstances &#8211; e.g. a special &#8216;one-off&#8217; item is collected, it shouldn&#8217;t be added again when the level\/scene is reloaded &#8211; these items MAY be transferred to player, other NPCs or removed altogether (a destroyed wall etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>generative\/semi-generative elements<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>game states to maknage game scenes\/levels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Roguelikes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-logrocket-blog wp-block-embed-logrocket-blog\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LMGypZimio\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.logrocket.com\/building-a-roguelike-game-with-rot-js\/\">Building a roguelike game with Rot.js<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Building a roguelike game with Rot.js&#8221; &#8212; LogRocket Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.logrocket.com\/building-a-roguelike-game-with-rot-js\/embed\/#?secret=cR4vec3Rwr#?secret=LMGypZimio\" data-secret=\"LMGypZimio\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tetris guidelines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tetris.wiki\/Tetris_Guideline\">https:\/\/tetris.wiki\/Tetris_Guideline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here be a probably large and certainly disorganised list of, yes, &#8220;Things to find out&#8221;&#8230; Piha &#8211; the up bit &#8211; and the crossed sticks on the path&#8230; A critter log A plant log A geology log The doorway lighting (and general other stuff like that) in Vikings &#8211; but also Lord of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-undertone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}