{"id":1190,"date":"2016-06-29T20:41:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T00:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2016-06-29T20:43:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T00:43:38","slug":"maze-game-mechanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/maze-game-mechanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Maze Game Mechanic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A smaller update this time. I had my shiny new list<\/a> that Victoria<\/a> had helped me create in hand and a bit of time set aside to do some work on my personal projects in the evening. So I used a tiny bit of it to get the first list item out of the way.<\/p>\n

What is the Overall Game Mechanic?<\/h1>\n
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Drawing may not be to scale, contain items that will actually be used, or even any good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The idea is simple, I want to create a game with some simple and increasingly more complex mazes. I want them to contain puzzles of various kinds which act as gatekeepers preventing the player from progressing through the levels.<\/p>\n

Another key mechanic that I had tossed around (and actually coded<\/a>) was the idea of a key thief or a “keyper” as I have named it here. The key thief doesn’t so much steal the keys as it takes them back to where they were originally in the level.<\/p>\n

And that’s it! It sounds really simple but I’ve taken a while to make any progress so I feel like writing down a plan will help me with that focus thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A smaller update this time. I had my shiny new list that Victoria had helped me create in hand and a bit of time set aside to do some work on my personal projects in the evening. So I used a tiny bit of it to get the first list item out of the way. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,213,226,228,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings","category-ideas","category-maze-game","category-planning","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}