{"id":788,"date":"2020-05-30T22:14:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T03:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/?p=788"},"modified":"2020-05-30T22:14:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T03:14:02","slug":"the-boring-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/the-boring-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boring Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know I said that I&#8217;d hopefully have exciting updates in the future, and I likely will a bit later in the summer.  Right now though, the only &#8220;progress&#8221; I can report is of the boring technical type.  File organization and things like that.  Important?  Yes.  Interesting to write or read about?  Not so much.  But it&#8217;s still a key part of game development.  Computers need to be optimized.  Files need to have a clear naming scheme and organizational structure.  If you don&#8217;t plan out details like those early on, and stay on top of them throughout the entire development process, then sooner or later things are going to become a complete mess and you&#8217;ll spend more time trying to find what you need and get things running properly than you will actually making the game.  But I&#8217;ll be happy to move on to some more fun and interesting tasks now that all that&#8217;s taken care of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I said that I&#8217;d hopefully have exciting updates in the future, and I likely will a bit later in the summer. Right now though, the only &#8220;progress&#8221; I can report is of the boring technical type. File organization and things like that. Important? Yes. Interesting to write or read about? Not so much. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/the-boring-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Boring Stuff<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}