{"id":1682,"date":"2018-05-05T01:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T01:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2018-05-05T01:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T01:06:12","slug":"new-game-zero-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/game-dev\/new-game-zero-out\/","title":{"rendered":"New Game: Zero Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/game-dev\/prototype-for-loop-game\/\">Back in late 2015<\/a> I prototyped a programming game called Loop Game. The prototype was shown at the local Adelaide games gathering called ARGGGH and raptured a small crowd of programmers who spent roughly an hour working through the problems.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the game is to write a computer program that will shift all the numbers in the grid to zero. However you&#8217;re limited in the number of if statements, loops and ReduceCell function calls you&#8217;re allowed to make.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hypernexus.itch.io\/zero-out\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/zero-out.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"294\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently I discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/blockly\/\">Google&#8217;s Blockly library<\/a> which allows users to create <a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\">Scratch<\/a>-like programming editor. Their examples even included code that translated the users blocks into Javascript code. So given this and my day job experience as a web developer I figured it would be cool to remake this game using Blockly for the web.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done in this new game called Zero Out. You can write your program using the Scratch-like interface or directly in Javascript. The game has 10 levels (two more than the prototype) and should take between 1-2 hours to play through.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hypernexus.itch.io\/zero-out\">Play Zero Out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/game-dev\/new-game-zero-out\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to New Game: Zero Out\"><p>Back in late 2015 I prototyped a programming game called Loop Game. The prototype was shown at the local Adelaide games gathering called ARGGGH and raptured a small crowd of programmers who spent roughly an hour working through the problems. The goal of the game is to write a computer program that will shift all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}