{"id":920,"date":"2021-10-30T09:18:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T14:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2021-10-30T09:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T14:18:32","slug":"it-was-a-dark-and-dismal-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/2021\/10\/it-was-a-dark-and-dismal-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a dark and dismal day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Okay, all kidding aside, it is a pretty dismal day here today. Hopefully, it is a better day tomorrow for the kids and their trick or treating. I sometimes wish I was 12 again, going out trick or treating and then gorging myself on candy. Ah, the simpler days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, today will hopefully be better when I pick my glasses up in a few hours. It will be nice to be able to see just one of each word again. I don&#8217;t know what I will do if the glasses don&#8217;t work out. I suppose I will be left wearing an eye patch, not my preferred resolution to the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s Next?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I started work on the next tutorial in the MonoGame RPG tutorial series last night. The focus of this tutorial will be on quests. Unfortunately, I will be scrapping some of it. It was just not working out the way that I envisioned it. So I will need to rethink my approach and start again. I hope to work on it this afternoon and this evening. Hoping against all hope that my new prescription makes it easier to work on the computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My projects are still on hiatus. I just don&#8217;t have time to work on them. If I did, I would probably work on Forest Rush first, and then when that is done, move back to Silver Prophet because I want to finish an RPG and publish it. As I&#8217;ve said before, game programming is easy. However, quality content creation is hard. I have the story all planned out. It is creating the maps that is challenging me. Also, the assets are a challenge. I know where I would get music. Sprites, however, are the problem area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I will be spending time on a tutorial today. However, I don&#8217;t know if I will finish it today. I plan to have the quest system in place this weekend. I will be returning to my lesson preparation tomorrow, though, as I want to start teaching again now that I have settled in at work. Again, happy to be getting my new glasses today. So, I encourage you to keep visiting the blog for the latest news on my tutorials and other goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck with your game programming adventures!<br><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Cynthia<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, all kidding aside, it is a pretty dismal day here today. Hopefully, it is a better day tomorrow for the kids and their trick or treating. I sometimes wish I was 12 again, going out trick or treating and then gorging myself on candy. Ah, the simpler days. Anyway, today will hopefully be better &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-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}