{"id":1180,"date":"2014-12-03T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2020-05-06T19:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:40:52","slug":"exercise-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"Games from Nothing: Black &#038; White Exercise #4 \u2014 Particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1181\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2-298x300.png\" alt=\"Screenshot (2)\" width=\"501\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2.png 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the particle system the key part I wanted to make sure was there was that it was player controlled. \u00a0From there it was trying to figure out how to make that pleasing to look at. I was playing around with different ideas and I tried having the particles always tend toward the center of the screen and the effect it had made the piece feel a lot more alive than it previously had. Once the randomness of the particles was set so that they didn&#8217;t stream out in a line i added a few more variables like bubble size and color that changed based on where the cursor was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the particle system the key part I wanted to make sure was there was that it was player controlled. \u00a0From there it was trying to figure out how to make that pleasing to look at. I was playing around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,90],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-from-nothing","tag-black-white-exercises","tag-particle-systems","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13962,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/13962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}