{"id":1889,"date":"2013-05-16T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T11:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2020-03-14T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:40:07","slug":"development-diary-5-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/development-diary-5-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Development Diary #5: Still Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been ages since I made an update to the dev. diary, that&#8217;s partly due to various commercial jobs unexpectedly coming my way, but also to do with a severe bout of demotivation-itis on my part. The last couple of weeks, however, have been really productive and I feel like I&#8217;m not only getting back on track, but making way better progress than I have at any other stage. The solution to my problems, it turns out, was pretty straight forward, throw a bit of money at them. I recently decided to invest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hutonggames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Playmaker<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fingergestures.fatalfrog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FingerGestures<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moodkie.com\/easysave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EasySave<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unikronsoftware.com\/2dtoolkit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2D Toolkit<\/a>. I&#8217;ll write up a bit more about my experiences with them and how they&#8217;ve helped to reinspire me later, for the moment you can see how I&#8217;m getting on in the video on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KX42d11tWLE\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been ages since I made an update to the dev. diary, that&#8217;s partly due to various commercial jobs unexpectedly coming my way, but also to do with a severe bout of demotivation-itis on my part. The last couple of weeks, however, have been really productive and I feel like I&#8217;m not only getting back &#8230; <a title=\"Development Diary #5: Still Alive\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/development-diary-5-still-alive\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Development Diary #5: Still Alive\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[45,43,44,64,18,76,57],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-development","tag-2d","tag-3d","tag-animation","tag-dev-diary","tag-softimage","tag-toryanse","tag-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4050,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/4050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfingers.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}