{"id":871,"date":"2024-02-29T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2024-02-29T04:16:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T04:16:10","slug":"make-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Make Video Games&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are making good progress on getting my new rig together. The motherboard arrived, and the graphics card is on the way. I still have to make some decisions about RAM, storage, and fans. (Budget? Go all out? Should I get shiny ones with rainbow LEDs?) I&#8217;m getting more excited about jumping into Unreal 5 and trying things out &#8212; just putting objects together and adding sound to it. For example, you walk up to a sphere and as you get closer the sound is louder. Or the sound changes.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Thor Hall encouraging beginners like me to give it a try. Someone called him the Mister Rogers of game design and that seems so fitting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Make Video Games\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aMc-GKv5olA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another thing I&#8217;m looking forward to with the new rig is downloading some music software. I&#8217;m especially looking forward to this plugin, called &#8220;Noctua&#8221;. Cameron had the idea to put together a collection of samples, including ones he recorded using a microphone that can &#8220;hear&#8221; electromagnetic fields (called an EMF microphone). With help from folks at UVI and after a year of work, this collection of samples became an actual software instrument, with ways to modify the sounds and layer them. Cameron&#8217;s project is free, and the plugin from UVI required to play it (called UVI Workstation) is free also.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I spent a year making a free plugin...\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/suDEnQe_2gw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Noctua<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvi.net\/noctua\">https:\/\/www.uvi.net\/noctua<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Workstation<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvi.net\/uvi-workstation.html\">https:\/\/www.uvi.net\/uvi-workstation.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are making good progress on getting my new rig together. The motherboard arrived, and the graphics card is on the way. I still have to make some decisions about RAM, storage, and fans. (Budget? Go all out? Should I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=871\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36,35,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plugins","category-thor-hall","category-venus-theory","category-you-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}