{"id":728,"date":"2022-07-28T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=728"},"modified":"2022-07-28T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:53:57","slug":"offensive","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/?portfolio=offensive","title":{"rendered":"Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was the last original game developed by my company Wave Software, before it died as a result of Ocean being sold to Infogrames. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game was intended to be the basis to enable several military scenarios, so there would be a series of games, not just the one. However, Ocean had other ideas and forbid us from using the menu systems we&#8217;d intended to enable stratergic decision marking, and the game ended up more like a Populous combined with Cannon Fodder sort of thing. In many ways it was ahead of it&#8217;s time, with isometric battlefield that could be viewed from 4 directions. So it was frustrating that Command and Conquer was released a few months before us, with it&#8217;s fixed &#8216;grandstand&#8217; point-of-view. Oh well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-autoplay=\"true\" data-delay=\"3\" data-effect=\"fade\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-736\" data-id=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Offensive-02.jpg?resize=780%2C520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Offensive-02.jpg?w=1200 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Offensive-02.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, 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decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-732\" data-id=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Offensive_ingame1.jpg?resize=320%2C200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Offensive_ingame1.jpg?w=320 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Offensive_ingame1.jpg?resize=300%2C188 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-730\" data-id=\"730\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Offensive-03.jpg?resize=780%2C520\" 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class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"my-contribution\">My Contribution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I initially made space for the rest of the team on this development, mainly focussing on designing the gameplay. But after some delays getting the dynamic isometric 3d terrain system working, I stepped in for more hands on development, implementing &#8216;revolutionary&#8217; systems such as troop embarkation (which Command and Conquer also implemented), and a macro based language to allow the AI to be programmed to engage in historic battles.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the last original game developed by my company Wave Software, before it died as a result of Ocean&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/?portfolio=offensive\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Offensive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack-portfolio-type":[],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[],"class_list":["post-728","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/728\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjetpack-portfolio-type&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjetpack-portfolio-tag&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}