{"id":40,"date":"2008-01-20T23:15:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T12:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2008\/01\/20\/game-in-a-week-2-begins\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T08:43:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T21:43:44","slug":"game-in-a-week-2-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/01\/20\/game-in-a-week-2-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Game in a Week #2 begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cow\"Well, I’ve had a week of vacation, and suddenly I’m feeling the pressure to do another “Game in a Week”. Like last time, I’m selecting the topic immediately before going to bed (early night tonight!), and will finish by midnight on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Today’s book is “Which Lie Did I Tell: More Adventures in the Screen Trade”<\/em>, by William Goldman. It’s a paperback edition published by Vintage Books in 2001. A friend loaned me his copy of this book and I enjoyed it so much that I bought my own copy — this one — solely so that I could loan it out to other friends. But it’s not out on loan right now, and I randomly opened the book to page 324, where the first sentence completely on the page is:<\/p>\n

Still just a bunch of munchers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(It’s actually part of a ‘CUT TO’ direction in an example screenplay fragment, and is referring to a herd of cows which aren’t actually doing much of anything)<\/p>\n

Initial reaction is that it’s suggesting a Pac-Man sort of game. But that’s probably too obvious, and somebody’s already made Pac-Man. Maybe I can take the context of the quote and do something about cows. Or even focus on the word “bunch”, and do something involving a flock or swarm of something. Or maybe all of the above.<\/p>\n

In any case, I’ll start on a real design tomorrow after work. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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