{"id":117,"date":"2020-06-03T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/game-programming\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:26:00","slug":"game-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/2020\/06\/game-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Going to switch gears here and just talk a bit. I started game programming 41 years ago at the age of ten. My brother brought home a computer from school that plugged int the TV. It was a TSR-80. I was instantly hooked. It had a few games and I wanted to make more. If I recall correctly my first game was a simple text based adventure game. You would move room to room and fight creatures. It was pretty good for a ten year old.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From then on i have always tinkered with game programming. I wrote a module for Legend of the Red Dragon and published a game similar to it called Guild of Thieves. Sadly the rise of the internet made BBSes less relevant and they disappeared. Still it was a good experience.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I worked on a few personal projects for a while but didn&#8217;t release anything. Around that time C# and .NET came out. I loved C#. There wasn&#8217;t really good game development platforms until XNA. It placed game development in hobbyists&#8217; hands. I was hooked. I developed several games for game programming challenges at Game Institute.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Out of XNA came MonoGame which I also love. I&#8217;ve been tinkering with RPGs mostly for the last few years including a Pokemon inspired brew. It is what Shadow Monsters is based on. Game play is pretty much done it is now content that I&#8217;m working on along with editors.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to switch gears here and just talk a bit. I started game programming 41 years ago at the age of ten. My brother brought home a computer from school that plugged int the TV. It was a TSR-80. I was instantly hooked. It had a few games and I wanted to make more. If &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}