{"id":10,"date":"2012-04-22T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T00:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/?p=10"},"modified":"2012-04-22T00:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T00:23:36","slug":"chickens-n-kittens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/2012\/04\/22\/chickens-n-kittens\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickens &#8216;n Kittens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been hard at work on CnK. And to prove it the next several posts are going to go back and explore the long, winding road that brought us here.<\/p>\n<p>First there was just an idea. The idea was that the game would take place on an island in the middle of an empty ocean. The game would be top-down third-person perspective. You would control the player and throw grenades at the kittens without blowing up your chickens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11 alignnone\" title=\"The First Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of empty island\" width=\"646\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot.jpg 646w, https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above image is the very first screenshot of what became Chickens n Kittens. In those days the code was C++ and OpenGL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17\" title=\"Screenshot The Second\" src=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot3.jpg\" alt=\"Same island but prettier\" width=\"646\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot3.jpg 646w, https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot3-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After more work the graphics began to improve. Now the island has a little more defined shape, the water fades into the foggy distance and has a bit of transparency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Screenshot The Third\" src=\"http:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot4.jpg\" alt=\"Even prettier version of the island\" width=\"646\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot4.jpg 646w, https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/water_shot4-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After even more work the transparency of the water is based on how deep it is, so the island fades into the water a little more realistically. It looks okay, but all this fussing around with the water is taking way too long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been hard at work on CnK. And to prove it the next several posts are going to go back and explore the long, winding road that brought us here. First there was just an idea. The idea was that the game would take place on an island in the middle of an empty ocean. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/2012\/04\/22\/chickens-n-kittens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chickens &#8216;n Kittens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makingof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondegreengames.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}