{"id":146,"date":"2012-01-13T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T10:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2012-01-28T02:17:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T02:17:44","slug":"speakers-adrian-hon-matt-wieteska-alex-macmillan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Hon, Matt Wieteska, Alex Macmillan: SixtoStart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zombiesrungame.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/zombiesrun.jpg\" alt=\"Zombies, Run!\" title=\"Zombies, Run!\" width=\"530\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/zombiesrun.jpg 530w, https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/zombiesrun-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adrian is managing director of&nbsp;SixtoStart, and&nbsp;with his colleagues Matt and&nbsp;Alex, will be talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zombiesrungame.com\/\">Zombies, Run!<\/a>, a&nbsp;narrative game that uses GPS, real maps, and&nbsp;takes place while you run at&nbsp;any speed. I&nbsp;think that&#8217;s an&nbsp;interesting design challenge: How do you cater to&nbsp;players of&nbsp;varying fitness, and&nbsp;how does the&nbsp;game adapt to&nbsp;multiple or&nbsp;random routes? I&nbsp;never pick a&nbsp;set route when I&nbsp;go running and&nbsp;take whatever turns I&nbsp;fancy, could it adapt to&nbsp;that? Would it try send me over a&nbsp;broken bridge?<\/p>\n<p>Unless you have the&nbsp;spirit of&nbsp;a&nbsp;flaneur, running can get boring if the&nbsp;endorphins aren&#8217;t flowing, and&nbsp;this is designed to&nbsp;make it more fun. As&nbsp;well as&nbsp;that, this session will cover fundraising using Kickstarter, which may seem like the&nbsp;latest holy moneyprinter, but it&#8217;s easy to&nbsp;get wrong if you take incorrect ideas to&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<p>This is the&nbsp;first of&nbsp;our daily blog posts about speakers. More on&nbsp;Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian is managing director of&nbsp;SixtoStart, and&nbsp;with his colleagues Matt and&nbsp;Alex, will be talking about Zombies, Run!, a&nbsp;narrative game that uses GPS, real maps, and&nbsp;takes place while you run at&nbsp;any speed. I&nbsp;think that&#8217;s an&nbsp;interesting design challenge: How do you cater to&nbsp;players of&nbsp;varying fitness, and&nbsp;how does the&nbsp;game adapt to&nbsp;multiple or&nbsp;random routes? I&nbsp;never pick a&nbsp;set route when I&nbsp;go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}