{"id":1401,"date":"2021-01-06T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2021-01-06T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:50:27","slug":"digital-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/2021\/01\/digital-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"digital bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">hello<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">i haven&#8217;t made a post here for 5 years. thats scary. i think most of you left. if you haven&#8217;t, why have you been refreshing the same webpage for 5 years<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">i have made a couple of video games!! how cool wow great great great<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">they are both <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>free<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/em>and you can play them right in your browser (but only on computers &#8211; not really designed for phones)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">here they are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">number one: <a href=\"https:\/\/zb.itch.io\/two-player\">TWO PLAYER<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">it&#8217;s a short (5 minutes ish???) single player video game about playing a video with your friend. it&#8217;s got multiple endings. i made the entire thing in about a week for the game jam <a title=\"7dfps\" href=\"https:\/\/itch.io\/jam\/7dfps-2020\">7DFPS<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zb.itch.io\/two-player\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1402 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/screenshot-1024x613.png\" alt=\"two player screenshot\" width=\"1024\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/screenshot-1024x613.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/screenshot-300x179.png 300w, http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/screenshot.png 1321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zb.itch.io\/two-player\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1403 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/title.png\" alt=\"title\" width=\"630\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/title.png 630w, http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/title-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zb.itch.io\/two-player\">go play it!!!!!!!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ok onto game number two:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"EVAZE\" href=\"https:\/\/zb.itch.io\/evaze\">EVAZE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">it&#8217;s a puzzle arcade game where you push blocks around and navigate through a maze. it&#8217;s fun!! i made it in 2 days for the <a href=\"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/evaze\">ludum dare game jam<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=592&amp;v=fTj2jiC6yZM\">&#8216;randomise user&#8217; on youtube did a feature on it<\/a> :)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">here is a video of me playing it:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 972px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1401-1\" width=\"972\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-10-05-19-27-10.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-10-05-19-27-10.mp4\">http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020-10-05-19-27-10.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">i&#8217;m working on turning it into a phone app. it nearly done, just need to sort out some bits and then submit to the android\/iphone stores<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">there is also a third game i&#8217;m working on but that one is bigger and unreleased, but i&#8217;ll save that for another time<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in other news i think i have gone mad. twitter and other social media has made me incredibly anxious about posting things online because of focus on the number of likes or responses or &#8216;engagement&#8217; and there&#8217;s too many &#8216;real people&#8217; with &#8216;real names&#8217; and posting there makes me feel very stressed. i got to thinking about how 7-8 years ago when this blog was properly actually active with lots of people viewing it, i never really felt that here. it was my place and i was in charge and i didn&#8217;t feel stressed out if nobody noticed or liked what i was doing. i could draw a dumb picture and put it up here with 0 pressure or expectations or anxiety or comparisons to others. i&#8217;m not promising i will keep this place updated because i am bad at that too, but i&#8217;m glad i made this realisation, that attempting to post only on\u00a0social media instead of this blog was\/is pointless and made me feel awful all the while. there&#8217;s some\u00a0rubbish pictures on this website that i made when i was an awkward teen but they&#8217;re my rubbish pictures and i&#8217;m ok with that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ok bye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hello i haven&#8217;t made a post here for 5 years. thats scary. i think most of you left. if you haven&#8217;t, why have you been refreshing the same webpage for 5 years i have made a couple of video games!! how cool wow great great great they are both free\u00a0and you can play them right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}