{"id":141,"date":"2008-11-23T18:49:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2008-11-23T18:49:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T18:49:42","slug":"gratuitous-geeky-game-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2008\/11\/23\/gratuitous-geeky-game-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratuitous Geeky Game next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I started work on what i thought would be the basics of my next game. I had a basic design document, and had thought about the game a lot. But the moment I started coding it, I started getting flashbacks to an older game idea I had tried ages ago and stopped work on. The more I thought about it, the more I thought it would be cool to do a game like that again.<\/p>\n<p>I started coding it, and within a few hours had something on screen that made me smile. I&#8217;ve been working on it ever since, and I&#8217;m quite pleased with how it&#8217;s coming along. I almost can&#8217;t work on it without smiling.<\/p>\n<p>it makes <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NO <\/strong><\/span>commercial sense for me to make it. I have 3 game ideas prepared which build on my current &#8216;reputation&#8217; for doing complex simulation \/ management \/ strategy games with a real-world setting. They are all good ideas and I think they would all sell. One of them would be great for the &#8216;casual&#8217; crowd. One is a potentially hugely popular and funny game. Another is more serious, maybe even <em>political<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But this one just triggers my inner geek endorphin levels too much. People who think of me as &#8216;the Kudos&#8217; guy, will wonder if the game is made by the same person. It&#8217;s very geeky, very old-school in some ways. It&#8217;s still 2D and it&#8217;s still strategic (in a way). It makes me feel 7 years old again.<\/p>\n<p>I almost feel duty bound to make it, because I wish there was a game like this. For once, it&#8217;s a positech game that will look much better in video than in screenshots.\u00a0 If in a few weeks time I&#8217;m still working on it (and thus am more sure I&#8217;ll stick with it), I&#8217;ll drop some hints about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not Democracy 3 or Kudos 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I started work on what i thought would be the basics of my next game. I had a basic design document, and had thought about the game a lot. But the moment I started coding it, I started getting flashbacks to an older game idea I had tried ages ago and<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Gratuitous Geeky Game next?<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2008\/11\/23\/gratuitous-geeky-game-next\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}