{"id":23,"date":"2026-04-21T06:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:08:33","slug":"log-1-20-4-26-27-4-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Log 1 &#8211; 20.4.26 &#8211; 27.4.26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Main thing<\/strong>: Proof of concept went well &#8211; so i am going to make my own placeholder graphics and make a new version from scratch&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Proof of concept v1 is done! Exceptionally rudimentary &#8211; enough to prove concept&#8230; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proof of concept v1 (8 Apr 2026) &#8211;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/subliminor\/\">https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/subliminor\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read &#8211; write &#8211; make<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, as i made the proof of concept in GBstudio, I could feel a connection to place as I made the scenes and labelled them and started arranging them together &#8211; i could see how there was indeed a direct connection between what I was doing, and the place i was aiming for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now i feel a sense of excitement around &#8216;building&#8217; a home &#8211; and that ideas come to me where i can take advantage of the digital format &#8211; e.g. I can rearrnage the layout and configuration of the rooms and spaces and how they connect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Focus of the week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the pre thing and the website and the promo &#8211; from the reading, playing and planning&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Mon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Started playing with struture of proof of concept #2 &#8211; mainly around figuring out how to have it so that when you leave a scene\/screen at one point, you actually appear in the same place in the next one &#8211; otherwise it was a bit jarring (go from the near any of the corners of the screen and see where you pop out to see what i mean&#8230;) Not so hard &#8211; just have to store x and y pos and direction vars then use them in next scene as required.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The other thing was trying to see if strings of text can be stored in variables. They can NOT. This is a limitation of gameboy i believe. Fine. I will just need to be creative&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Final thing was to start mapping out the map &#8211; and sort out grid code etc. Of course, given strings are off the table, i might need to consider a numbering &#8216;naming&#8217; convention for each scene. I think that should work out ok&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Tues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spent some time building the subliminor site &#8211; its a start and will do for now &#8211; I just need to work out a better way to host working demo files etc. as well as sort out a mailing list&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Takeaways<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>things are happening. slowly&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Wed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Project work 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>case study &#8211; analysis &#8211; set up how to do screen recordings of games &#8211; and how to edit and post them online (for inclusion on blog)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the tools\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>emulator &#8211; set up to display hard pixels &#8211; set at a decent magnification: 3x seems to be good &#8211; set correct palette (sometimes they can be WILDLY off&#8230;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>video editor &#8211; to trim off the frames that aren&#8217;t needed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>video player &#8211; something that allows for frame-by-frame stepping forwards AND backwards &#8211; and allows for displaying frame numbers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This set up should allow for being able to do frame accurate timings of portions of game play\/animations\/character movement etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Takeaways<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Thu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Project work 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>mock up player &#8211; start by drawing them&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> &#8211; reading about place &#8211; continuing with Relph<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Fri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Project work 3 &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Takeaways<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Sat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Finish off tasks or, if done &#8211; start another task&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>do the tutorial<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>icon\/logo &#8211; design to work at small scale&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A quick catch up session<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main thing: Proof of concept went well &#8211; so i am going to make my own placeholder graphics and make a new version from scratch&#8230; https:\/\/nonlinearexperience.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/subliminor\/ Read &#8211; write &#8211; make Interestingly, as i made the proof of concept in GBstudio, I could feel a connection to place as I made the scenes and labelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subliminor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}