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authorPhilipp Geyer <philipp@geyer.co.uk>2022-01-28 22:15:00 +0000
committerPhilipp Geyer <philipp@geyer.co.uk>2022-01-28 22:15:00 +0000
commitaa34abbc349661ccae14b3d462b6c0c549da6637 (patch)
treeeaf4d7616d5e44e3a835b616fdd1f089931d7e9e
parent6443b409a1880341c2ba1a64dcd8270f3c49fd78 (diff)
Adding Ghosts in the Toybox
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diff --git a/cv/index.org b/cv/index.org
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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Pixel Toys.
After leaving FreeStyle in 2016, I joined a VR studio, started by
former colleagues until 2017.
- [[url_for:cv,slug=13][Hungry Shark VR]]
-- [[url_for:cv,slug=14][Ghosts in the Toybox]]
+- [[url_for:cv,slug=14][Ghosts in the Toybox]] *
* FreeStyle Games
My first job after moving to 'Silicon Spa' in 2013 until 2016.
diff --git a/cv/toybox.org b/cv/toybox.org
index 840e740..0eec069 100644
--- a/cv/toybox.org
+++ b/cv/toybox.org
@@ -1,2 +1,32 @@
#+TITLE: Ghosts in the Toybox
#+SLUG: 14
+
+[[url_for_img:static,images/cv/photo-1568828668638-b1b4014d91a2.jpeg][Photo by Susan Holt Simpson on Unsplash]]
+
+This game initially started out as a gamejam idea, where we attempted
+to find interesting mechanics we could do with Mobile VR, with the
+intention of making a game for Google Daydream, GearVR, or later port
+it to other platforms. We decided that the most interesting use for
+the motion controller was frisbee golf. After that time, I spent a
+little time playing with different courses, trying to find something
+fun, but we established that there were two main issue, the first
+being that the motion controllers for mobile VR were not accurate
+enough to be able to get repeatable shots, but also that you have to
+throw one frisbee, then wait to see where it lands, it was not as
+interesting after playing for a short while, we wanted something
+slightly more fast paced.
+
+The game was then, instead, changed to a wave shooter, in a slightly
+cutesy style. I worked on some smoke and mirrors with the throwing
+that would allow you to have repeatable shots which, while not as
+realistic, given the much more aggressive pace, it was a far more
+enjoyable experience.
+
+As the development team for this game was very small, I handled a lot
+of the codebase myself. One of the biggest problems I attacked was
+that we wanted to have a single seemless world. For this I created a
+streaming and culling system that would allow us to aggressively
+unload the level as we moved through it, and load the next sections
+just in time.
+
+[[url_for_img:static,file=images/cv/photo-ghosts.jpeg][Enemy Ghosts knitted by PixelKnitting on Etsy]]
diff --git a/pages/site-credits.org b/pages/site-credits.org
index a78841c..876de84 100644
--- a/pages/site-credits.org
+++ b/pages/site-credits.org
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ for it.
- [[https://www.pexels.com/photo/soldier-holding-rifle-78783/][Soldier Holding Rifle]] - [[https://www.pexels.com/@pixabay][Pixabay]] - [[https://www.pexels.com/creative-commons-images/][Pexels]]
- [[https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-building-930436/][Photo of Building]] - [[https://www.pexels.com/@paggiarofrancesco][Francesco Paggiaro]] - [[https://www.pexels.com/license/][Pexels]]
+[[url_for:cv,slug=14][Ghosts in the Toybox]]
+- [[https://unsplash.com/photos/GQ327RPuxhI][Alphabet Blocks]] - [[https://unsplash.com/@shs521][Susan Holt Simpson]] - [[https://unsplash.com/license][Unsplash]]
+
[[url_for:cv,slug=16][Doodle Jump: Space Chase]]
- [[https://www.pexels.com/photo/spaceship-earth-at-epcot-3617464/][Spaceship Earth at Epcot]] - [[https://www.pexels.com/@benjaminjsuter][Benjamin Suter]] - [[https://www.pexels.com/license/][Pexels]]
- [[https://unsplash.com/photos/7AckmETIk54][3D Pyramid Scene]] - [[https://unsplash.com/@rothwellden][Adam Jícha]] - [[https://unsplash.com/license][Unsplash]]
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