{"id":1355,"date":"2015-09-05T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2015-08-22T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T10:42:37","slug":"like-day-and-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"Like Day and Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most fun things when making a game is adding the little details and touches that make a game feel alive. One of those is the\u00a0day \/ night system in Totem topple. It wasn&#8217;t in the original plan for the game, but when doing the environment art for the later stages of the game, we ended up with some extra silver and blue scenes. With a bit of additional editing and few modifications to existing background elements, we were able to create a full set of night-time assets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1360\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"Totem_Topple_Wii_U_eShop_Trailer_2_NOA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Totem_Topple_Wii_U_eShop_Trailer_2_NOA.gif\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Similarly from a programming perspective, it was relatively quick to do a time-of-day check and depending on that, simply swap out the current set of mountains, clouds and background gradients with equivalent night time assets. The rising sun was replaced by a moon, with the rest of the game remaining otherwise the same.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst certainly not as sophisticated as in some games, the day \/ night system adds a touch of variety to the game, and a nice\u00a0little surprise for players to find.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1356\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"night_ref-01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/night_ref-01.png\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/night_ref-01.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/night_ref-01-168x300.png 168w, https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/night_ref-01-576x1024.png 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most fun things when making a game is adding the little details and touches that make a game feel alive. One of those is the\u00a0day \/ night system in Totem topple. It wasn&#8217;t in the original plan for the game, but when doing the environment art for the later stages of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wii-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crystallinegreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}