{"id":377,"date":"2009-01-12T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T19:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2010-10-11T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T19:23:36","slug":"hello-my-name-is-jason-and-i-am-a-projectile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/hello-my-name-is-jason-and-i-am-a-projectile\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, My name is Jason and I am a Projectile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey people. I hope everyone\u2019s new year is going well and  that you all got everything you wanted (or deserved &gt;:| ) this holiday  season. I\u2019ve mostly been enjoying some time off by visiting with family,  playing video games, and snowboarding but I did manage to put some time into  game development. I took a little bit of a break from Winter Storm to work on a  few updates to Bowmaster Prelude. Yeah, I still go back and tweak my old games  from time to time. The latest update to prelude features some much needed user  interface changes for sound controls along with a new in-game stats display  which shows such things as your accuracy and greatest damage dealt for the  current round. I also replaced the intro narration with my friend Kris Kowal\u2019s  voice as well as bumped up the quality of all the sounds. Go check it out if  you haven\u2019t yet.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah so in other exciting news I recently acquired the  domain bowmaster.com. This was not as easy as it sounds as it was already owned  by a very cool entrepreneur that was using it for an entirely different reason  (ribbon\/bow making business). He decided to move on from that endeavor and was  generous enough to allow me the opportunity to acquire the domain. So now I  have it. It\u2019s mine. Muahahaha. Right now I just forward the url to LostVectors.com  but in the future I may use the domain to further expand the Bowmaster empire.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see what else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been doing lots of snowboarding lately. I like snowboarding  but I\u2019m not a big fan of some of the culture. I\u2019m sure there are lots of nice  fun snow-sport people who aren\u2019t total jerks but I\u2019ve encountered a notable  amount of less-than-desirables on and around the slopes of Mountain High  Resort. My pet peeves: line cutters, in-line smokers, people who litter, and  drunk people. It\u2019s people like these that make me reluctant to call myself  \u201cSnowboarder\u201d. But, yes I am \u201cone who snowboards\u201d and for convenience sake I  refer to myself as such if asked. Just as I am a PC, Gamer,  Indi-Game-Developer, Geek, etc if you\u2019re keeping track of labels.<\/p>\n<p>So for Christmas I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/img\/random\/1up-shirt.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this shirt<\/a>  from my lovely awesome fianc\u00e9e. And since I have Viking blood which grants  frost resistance +10 I rarely need a jacket when I go snowboarding. Hence, I\u2019ve  adopted this shirt as the official tabard for my snowboarding guild. The shirt  is a nice way to say \u201chey look at me&#8230; but wait, I\u2019m not your typical  \u2018hey-look-at-me-snowboarder\u2019 I\u2019m a gamer too\u201d if that makes any sense. So despite  all of the undesirable snowboard \u201cculture\u201d occurring around me I still had the  pleasure of a random group of kids shout out to me, \u201chey check out that guys  shirt\u201d followed by some impromptu Mario themed a cappella.<\/p>\n<p>Snowboarding Stats:<\/p>\n<p>Local Trips Taken: 5<br \/>\nRuns shredded: 60 <br \/>\nTimes airborne: 101<br \/>\nSuccessful landings: 99<br \/>\nElbows hurt: 1<br \/>\nHelmet status: 100% awesome, worn at all times while on  slopes.<\/p>\n<p>As for games I\u2019ve been playing lately&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Left 4 Dead 2: Still totally awesome fun. Love Scavange and  Versus mode. The BatGirl Posse (headed by my fiancee BatGirl no less) is an  unstoppable force of awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Dragon Age: Origins: I completed my first play through as a  heroic mage who made the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good. (::spoiler  alert::) Long live King Alistar.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Bros Wii: Cooperative rage building game. Will BatGirl  and I call off the wedding? Our love is strong&#8230; but will it endure the  accidental mushroom stealing and head stomping?<\/p>\n<p>Munchkin Quest (Board Game): Epic\/funny RPG board\/card game.  Lots of fun. Rules open for debate. Debates may result in real-life family  feuds. Feuds may result in bloodshed. Band-Aids sold separately. (Fun fact&#8230; I  once shared a cab with Steve Jackson, creator of Munchkin, in San Francisco at the Game Developers  Conference).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey people. I hope everyone\u2019s new year is going well and  that you all got everything you wanted (or deserved &gt;:| ) this holiday  season. I\u2019ve mostly been enjoying some time off by visiting with family,  playing video games, and snowboarding but I did manage to put some time into  game development. I took a little bit of a break from Winter Storm to work on a  few updates to Bowmaster Prelude. Yeah, I still go back and tweak my old games  from time to time. The latest update to prelude features some much needed user  interface changes for sound controls along with a new in-game stats display  which shows such things as your accuracy and greatest damage dealt for the  current round. I also replaced the intro narration with my friend Kris Kowal\u2019s  voice as well as bumped up the quality of all the sounds. Go check it out if  you haven\u2019t yet.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/hello-my-name-is-jason-and-i-am-a-projectile\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}