{"id":209,"date":"2021-01-29T07:31:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2021-01-29T07:31:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T12:31:44","slug":"getting-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/209\/getting-back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been working intermittently on a game about ghost hunters for a few years now. At the last Protospiel Online I was starting to get tired of working on <em>Villanostra<\/em> so I thought I&#8217;d get back to <em>Haunt Control Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t really made very good progress. I&#8217;m just trying to make the smallest possible prototype for testing the climax of the game. But I sit and stare and the screen and nothing much comes out. Fortunately, I&#8217;ve been here before, and I know some things that help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Start writing a log of my progress each day. (Hence this post.)<\/li><li>Start assembling physical components.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I kind of cheated on #2 today. I need a status tracker for the new prototype, and I started sketching it on an index card. But frankly that&#8217;s pretty tedious, trying to get three tracks on the card that are the right size to move a token along. In addition, I&#8217;ve been learning to use Figma at work, so I used it to create the tracker above. I don&#8217;t know that it was much less tedious, but it did help me practice using that tool, and it will be much easier to change the tracker when I want to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another odd thing about this project is that I&#8217;m starting to develop an odd sense of pronoia about it. There have been a few small coincidences: things that keep me thinking about the ghost hunting theme, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Stumbling across <em>Lonesome Ghosts<\/em>, a Disney short I used to watch. (And finally being able to watch the whole thing!)<\/li><li>The theme to <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> coming up in my Pandora feed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to think that something in the universe outside my own head wants me to work on this. I see no reason not to indulge it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working intermittently on a game about ghost hunters for a few years now. At the last Protospiel Online I was starting to get tired of working on Villanostra so I thought I&#8217;d get back to Haunt Control Inc. I haven&#8217;t really made very good progress. I&#8217;m just trying to make the smallest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-design","category-haunt-control-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}