{"id":8799,"date":"2025-02-01T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2025-02-01T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:36:30","slug":"neon-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/01\/neon-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Griffin and his friend, James, released an early demo of their game, <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesglaser.itch.io\/neon-smoke\">Neon Smoke<\/a>. Griffin composed the music and created most of the art. James did most of the coding. Other friends contributed story elements and helped write the dialogue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how James and Griffin describe the process and story on their webpage: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Overview of Process<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This demo of our game, Neon Smoke, was created for the National Science Foundation&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/new.nsf.gov\/75years\/game-maker-awards\">Game Maker Awards<\/a>&#8216; competition. Over the last 4 to 5 months, we have been working on developing art, music, story, and code; as well as overall having a fun time making our silly little game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You, the player, wake up in a <strong>cryo chamber<\/strong> in the year <strong>2138<\/strong>. After breaking out, you find yourself in a mysteriously abandoned and ruined tower. After this you meet <strong>two figures<\/strong> who seem friendly enough\u2026 but can you really trust them? Adventure through a <strong>post-apocalyptic world<\/strong> full of resources, unique characters to talk to, and <strong>robot companion<\/strong>s. There are even arcades to play retro minigames in to collect more resources to aid you on your journey to stop the <strong>evil robots<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s their video trailer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neon Smoke Game Teaser Trailer\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E4o5pOk4g7w?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffin and his friend, James, released an early demo of their game, Neon Smoke. Griffin composed the music and created most of the art. James did most of the coding. Other friends contributed story elements and helped write the dialogue. Here&#8217;s how James and Griffin describe the process and story on their webpage: Overview of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/01\/neon-smoke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neon Smoke<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[130,79],"class_list":["post-8799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-griffin","tag-coding","tag-griffin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/NeonSmokeSplash.png?fit=1919%2C1079&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8803,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions\/8803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}