{"id":16,"date":"2009-09-21T00:02:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T07:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2009-10-06T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T03:16:12","slug":"this-weeks-prototype-capsule-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Prototype: Capsule Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketqase.com\/weekly_games\/CapsuleDefense.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Capsule Defense\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basketqase.com\/roblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/capsuleDefenseSnap.jpg\" alt=\"Capsule Defense\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capsule Defense<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I present to you: <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/?page_id=14\">Capsule Defense<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To Play: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Move the turret by moving the mouse left and right.<\/li>\n<li>Fire by pressing the mouse button.<\/li>\n<li>Go <a href=\"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/?page_id=14\">here<\/a> to try it out.<\/li>\n<li>Come back and add a comment on this page telling me what you think.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s prototype comes from the mind of my little brother . . . though it doesn&#8217;t nearly do the original concept justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Brother&#8217;s Concept:<\/strong> Let&#8217;s make a tower defense game like <em>Plant vs. Zombies<\/em> where you get to build your own weapons from parts you earn each level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Actually Happened:<\/strong> I only managed to get done with a single gun and a mindless capsule target. \u00a0So today, before writing this post, I added a little swivel and a Mindless Capsule Target instantiator and made a sort of <em>Missile Command <\/em>clone. \u00a0Yay!<\/p>\n<p>You might have detected a discrepancy between concept and result. \u00a0That would be from not putting enough time into it to do the concept justice. C&#8217;est la vie. \u00a0Perhaps another week we&#8217;ll get a more fleshed out version.<\/p>\n<p>~R<\/p>\n<p><em>Currently playing: The Beatles Rock Band<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I present to you: Capsule Defense To Play: Move the turret by moving the mouse left and right. Fire by pressing the mouse button. Go here to try it out. Come back and add a comment on this page telling me what you think. About the Process: This week&#8217;s prototype comes from the mind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[68,42,180,39,64,52,65,66,30,67],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-development","category-prototypes","tag-capsule-defense","tag-game-design","tag-game-development","tag-indie-game-development","tag-missile-command","tag-my-little-brother","tag-plants-vs-zombies","tag-popcap-games","tag-rapid-prototyping","tag-tower-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}