{"id":1,"date":"2014-09-10T22:20:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T22:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2014-09-10T23:37:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T23:37:28","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Blog, Post 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a writer, you&#8217;re not really encouraged to share updates on a work in progress. Nobody wants to hear about how you&#8217;re really struggling with the Second Act Turn. I&#8217;m not even sure I know what that means. But as I&#8217;ve gotten into coding &#8212; making both Twitter bots and games &#8212; I&#8217;ve discovered the concept of the &#8220;Dev Blog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next paragraph explains what a Dev Blog is. You&#8217;ll either find this interesting or insulting, depending on who you are. So please\u00a0read or skip accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dev Blog&#8221; is short for &#8220;Development Blog.&#8221; It&#8217;s a place for a game or software developer to post updates regarding the progress of their current project or projects.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to do here. Welcome to the Dev Blog. What am I working on?<\/p>\n<p>Right now, several projects:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A couple of essays for Medium on various topics<br \/>\n&#8211; @GunfightGame, an Old West shootout game for Twitter<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;The 2003 AIM Conversation Simulator&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Lettuce Walk,&#8221; the third of the tortoise games for <a title=\"kotd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koanoftheday.com\" target=\"_blank\">koanoftheday.com<\/a> (<a title=\"the first game.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koanoftheday.com\/trails\" target=\"_blank\">first<\/a> and <a title=\"the second.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koanoftheday.com\/shells\" target=\"_blank\">second<\/a>)<br \/>\n&#8211; A short book the name of which I cannot disclose<br \/>\n&#8211; A kotd novel tentatively titled &#8220;the book of #zen&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Two more games that involve breaking the <a title=\"Wikipedia is Source\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_Circle_(virtual_worlds)\" target=\"_blank\">ludic circle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, hopefully, this blog will help me update people, and keep me honest about the projects that I&#8217;m working on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">As a writer, you&#8217;re not really encouraged to share updates on a work in progress. Nobody wants to hear about how you&#8217;re really struggling with the Second Act Turn. I&#8217;m not even sure I know what that means. But as I&#8217;ve gotten into coding &#8212; making both Twitter bots and games &#8212; I&#8217;ve discovered the&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/hello-world\/\"> <strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkarber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}