{"id":75,"date":"2013-02-08T18:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T02:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2013-03-01T05:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T13:23:05","slug":"rupert-j-scuttlemeyer-and-the-robotville-adventures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/projects\/rupert-j-scuttlemeyer-and-the-robotville-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupert J Scuttlemeyer and the Robotville Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNL3VIAkF_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Type:<\/strong> \u00a0Student<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> \u00a05\/2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong> \u00a0<a title=\"Robotville Adventures Facebook Page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Rupert-J-Scuttlemeyer-and-the-Robotville-Adventures\/127091604031630\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>, <a title=\"Robotville Adventures Installer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anguishgames.com\/download\/RJSatRA_Setup.exe\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Role:<\/strong> \u00a0Technical Director, Tools<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robotville Adventures was my freshman game project. \u00a0I was the technical director for the team, designing and implementing the core engine, establishing code and comment standards, and ensuring that the finished product met the technical needs of the game. \u00a0Outside of that, I also wrote all of the tools for the game, and on the content side wrote all dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>This game was a true oddity. \u00a0It was written in C and built to run inside Windows&#8217; command console, but since all freshman games at Digipen do that, it isn&#8217;t what makes this project so strange. \u00a0We took everything that we were told not to do in a school game project and did it anyway. \u00a0We built a game that was really 3 games in 1 (town exploration, branching dialogue driven story, 3D platforming), we built a game that was very content heavy (there were 30 town zones, 10 platforming levels, 63 NPCs, and over 2000 dialogue scenes), and we built external tools (all content tools were written in C# using WinForms). \u00a0Flying in the face of conventional wisdom made things challenging and time consuming enough, but we also had no real good idea how to architect a good engine. \u00a0However, we ended up making the game we set out to make, and so I consider this project a great success. \u00a0We also still think it&#8217;s a pretty fun (and funny!) game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Project Type: \u00a0Student Release Date: \u00a05\/2011 Resources: \u00a0Website, Download Role: \u00a0Technical Director, Tools Details: Robotville Adventures was my freshman game project. \u00a0I was the technical director for the team, designing and implementing the core engine, establishing code and comment standards, and ensuring that the finished product met the technical \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/projects\/rupert-j-scuttlemeyer-and-the-robotville-adventures\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":71,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P39ImV-1d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/157"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamfizzgames.com\/Matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}