{"id":228,"date":"2008-11-22T18:13:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/?p=228"},"modified":"2022-05-24T18:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:13:26","slug":"its-not-quite-what-i-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/2008\/11\/22\/its-not-quite-what-i-intended\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not quite what I intended&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The microscope puzzle. As many of you might have predicted, even the non-programmers, it&#8217;s one of the more difficult bits of the project. In fact, just as it was one of the more difficult bits of the game.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going about it in a way that feels like cheating. Basically, I&#8217;m completely ignoring the disassembly for now, and implementing my own algorithm (with inspiration from <a href=\"http:\/\/home.att.net\/~Tom.Horsley\/software.html\">this tool<\/a>) play the game (hopefully well). The ideal thing being that once I&#8217;ve done this, and have a really good idea of how the game works, I then look at the disassembly and figure out more easily (though certainly not easily) how it works. But it is possible that this latter step may get&#8230; postponed. Depends how well my algorithm works (and how different its playing style is from the original&#8217;s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The microscope puzzle. As many of you might have predicted, even the non-programmers, it&#8217;s one of the more difficult bits of the project. In fact, just as it was one of the more difficult bits of the game. I&#8217;m going about it in a way that feels like cheating. Basically, I&#8217;m completely ignoring the disassembly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/t7gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}