{"id":8,"date":"2010-12-28T02:59:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T02:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2010-12-28T17:31:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T17:31:43","slug":"the-genesis-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"The Genesis of the Game\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea for the game was born out of a desire to have a game that could be played at dinner parties which was simple, fun and quick. At the same time, I was interested in creating an application that could be used on the iPhone and iPad which I love &#8211; but I really didn&#8217;t want to learn Objective C to create it, so it&#8217;s a perfect opportunity to learn more about iOS Web Apps, HTML 5 and CSS3.<\/p>\n<p>In order to set up some parameters to guide the project I chose the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The game would include some physical elements (a board, player pieces etc) so that there was a sense of where everyone was at any moment<\/li>\n<li>The game would include the ability to use images and recipes as questions in a way that made sense and was easy to incorporate<\/li>\n<li>The game needs to have some randomness to it &#8211; which is available via having some kind of programatic element to the process (other than dice)<\/li>\n<li>Since an iPad is kind of the right form factor for a menu or clipboard, the game would utilize that as a physical metaphor for something that&#8217;s happening in a restaurant or kitchen<\/li>\n<li>The game would use an online database of questions which would allow people to contribute to the database and which would provide an ever expanding array of play<\/li>\n<li>The game is based on the latest HTML 5 and CSS3 technology which is supported by the iPad and iPhone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea for the game was born out of a desire to have a game that could be played at dinner parties which was simple, fun and quick. At the same time, I was interested in creating an application that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/?p=8\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}