{"id":1396,"date":"2014-12-09T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T06:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2020-04-29T21:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T21:02:06","slug":"conference-post-2-a-cup-of-rain-design-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Games from Nothing: Conference Post #2 \u2014 A Cup of Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My inspiration for the game \u201cA Cup of Rain\u201d comes from my window in a rainy day: small rain drops were sliding slowly, and when they ran into other drops, they would\u00a0form a flow . Besides seeing this beautiful process taken place naturally, you can also use your finger to connect raindrops and create a flow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1391871_10202339541240697_1260755131_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1397\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1391871_10202339541240697_1260755131_n.jpg\" alt=\"1391871_10202339541240697_1260755131_n\" width=\"499\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1391871_10202339541240697_1260755131_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1391871_10202339541240697_1260755131_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1391871_10202339541240697_1260755131_n-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had this idea of simulating rain from very early on, but I did not think of turning it into a game. During the most\u00a0part of this semester, I have been working on other games and prototypes. The only thing that came close to this idea is a game I wrote at the beginning of the semester called \u201cColor Rain.\u201d Though it is also a game about rain, the concept was very different.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1398\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141209011712.png\" alt=\"20141209011712\" width=\"502\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141209011712.png 799w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141209011712-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141209011712-624x377.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Color Rain, version 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1399\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141209011555.png\" alt=\"20141209011555\" width=\"493\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141209011555.png 799w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141209011555-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141209011555-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141209011555-624x624.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Color Rain, version 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I started conceptualizing this game, the playing mechanics was totally different. I imagined the play drawing lines from drop to drop, and, through color matching, create some special effects. When actually coding, I became interested in other forms of interaction, so I gradually changed the mechanics. Now tapping is the major game play mechanics, and through tapping, several different effects will take place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-09-00-20-08.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1392\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-09-00-20-08-640x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Screenshot_2014-12-09-00-20-08\" width=\"511\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-09-00-20-08-640x1024.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-09-00-20-08-187x300.jpeg 187w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-09-00-20-08-624x998.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-09-00-20-08.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My inspiration for the game \u201cA Cup of Rain\u201d comes from my window in a rainy day: small rain drops were sliding slowly, and when they ran into other drops, they would\u00a0form a flow . Besides seeing this beautiful process&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,50,83],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-from-nothing","tag-conference-project","tag-conference","tag-conference-post-2","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13843,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/13843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}