{"id":2208,"date":"2019-04-14T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T08:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.202\/wordpress\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2019-04-14T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T15:30:09","slug":"goodbye-pinball-welcome-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye pinball, welcome Survival!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;m at 52% of my first UE4 course and just finished the pinball game.<br \/>\nInteresting course, but boring and badly structured, that Chris dude Unreal Evangelist is a nice guy and knows the software very well but is a very poor teacher &#8211; and his mind is a mess.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m finally starting a project which can serve as foundation for Althea III: a survival.<\/p>\n<p>There is still a long way to go to be able to produce content like I was doing on NWN though, I don&#8217;t feel confident in everything I learnt so far and don&#8217;t think I can start a project on my own anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>After this course, I&#8217;ll be beginning the C++ UE4 course which is much longer but, allegedly, better structured. And after that I have a few other shorter courses about multiplayer implementation, content importing, material designing, monster AI and various technical aspects.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to get by the end of this year where I was with NWN. Once I have the foundations built, it will always be the same stuff: design levels, conversations, quests, enigmas, items, particle effects, models, characters, monsters, all things that UE4 handles much better than NWN.<\/p>\n<p>The next step, if next step there is because I&#8217;m pushing myself to the limit here and might throw the towel any moment, will probably be to put the project on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/\">Kickstarter<\/a> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4SOS-a4ks7s\">Stadia<\/a> publishing in mind, which means no-one will ever need to buy the game nor connect to any server: just get on Youtube and click Play on the game demo.<br \/>\nNo need to download hakpaks nor the game: the players will play from any device they want including their TV set like they would stream any video content. Buying a gaming controller might be needed in case of a TV, of course.<\/p>\n<p>We are at a new dawn of computer gaming.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m developing the game with ray-tracing enabled, which will not render on older computers, but would render perfectly if game-streaming!<br \/>\nBeing able to access Kickstarter and Stadia means game developers don&#8217;t need to find a publisher anymore. And don&#8217;t need to give those sharks an arm and a leg, I know what I&#8217;m talking about from my novels publishers: on 13\u20ac for a sold book I only received 1\u20ac and everybody thinks it&#8217;s fine. Screw the leechers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;m at 52% of my first UE4 course and just finished the pinball game. Interesting course, but boring and badly structured, that Chris dude Unreal Evangelist is a nice guy and knows the software very well but is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/?p=2208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}