{"id":1349,"date":"2017-04-01T16:05:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blg2\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:51:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:51:31","slug":"post-1343","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Splat the zombies&#8217; 3D game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got another long-running collaboration to the point of having something to show &mdash; a first-person shooter in the browser.  This was an idea which Sally, my youngest, had.  She drew a bunch of house fronts, and also some &#8216;zombies&#8217;, and then a map of the world where the action takes place.  <a href=\"https:\/\/bennorth.github.io\/zombie-3d-game\/\">The result<\/a> is hosted on GitHub pages:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bennorth.github.io\/zombie-3d-game\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"240\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/zombie-attack-w360.jpg\" width=\"360\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It requires a WebGL-capable browser, and I have not put effort into graceful behaviour if this requirement isn&#8217;t met.  There are <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bennorth\/zombie-3d-game\/blob\/gh-pages\/README.md\">some more details<\/a>, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bennorth\/zombie-3d-game\">the repo itself<\/a>, on GitHub, although it&#8217;s just a dump of the final state of the work rather than a useful history.<\/p>\n<p>It was good to experiment with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/\">Blender<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babylonjs.com\/\">BabylonJS<\/a> in the implementation work for this game, and I continue to be impressed by how much power is now available within the browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got another long-running collaboration to the point of having something to show &mdash; a first-person shooter in the browser. This was an idea which Sally, my youngest, had. She drew a bunch of house fronts, and also some &#8216;zombies&#8217;, and then a map of the world where the action takes place. The result is hosted on GitHub pages: It requires a WebGL-capable browser, and I have not put effort into graceful behaviour if this requirement isn&#8217;t met. There are some more details, and also the repo itself, on GitHub, although it&#8217;s just a dump of the final state of the work rather than a useful history. It was good to experiment with Blender and BabylonJS in the implementation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}