{"id":1859,"date":"2011-03-03T11:29:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2011-03-03T11:32:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:32:57","slug":"z-type-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/z-type-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Z-Type Story."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first-letter\">D<\/span>ominic Szablewsi provides a bit of the technical detail behind his tremendous HTML5-based game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoboslab.org\/ztype\/\">Z-Type<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/gaming\/2011\/02\/14\/z-type\/\">a guest post on Mozilla Labs&#8217; gaming blog<\/a>. Beyond the actual development, though, lies a strong point about delighting players:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The one thing I took special care of with Z-Type is that every shot you  take, every keystroke, is as satisfactory as possible. It\u2019s a lesson  that is preached and lived by id software \u2013 the creators of the Doom and  Quake series. The plasma bullet you shoot has to look awesome, it has  to sound awesome and there has to be an explosion for every single hit.  It is absolutely necessary that you feel powerful while playing the game  even if you are not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Szablewsi provides a bit of the technical detail behind his tremendous HTML5-based game Z-Type in a guest post on Mozilla Labs&#8217; gaming blog. Beyond the actual development, though, lies a strong point about delighting players: The one thing I took special care of with Z-Type is that every shot you take, every keystroke, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[18,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}