{"id":802,"date":"2022-07-28T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=802"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:36:10","slug":"elf","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/?portfolio=elf","title":{"rendered":"Elf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was a conversion of the Amiga original to PC on behalf of Ocean Software. We did meet with the original development team just the once, and they confirmed the odd animation of the main character was entirely intentional and &#8216;funny&#8217;, so now we know. <\/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=\"246\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-806\" data-id=\"806\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ElfOcean.jpg?resize=246%2C300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ElfOcean.jpg?resize=246%2C300 246w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ElfOcean.jpg?w=491 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-804\" data-id=\"804\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Elf.jpg?resize=300%2C188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Elf.jpg?resize=300%2C188 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Elf.jpg?w=400 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-810\" data-id=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Elf_ingame2.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Elf_ingame2.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Elf_ingame2.jpg?w=640 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-808\" data-id=\"808\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Elf_ingame1.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Elf_ingame1.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Elf_ingame1.jpg?w=640 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a 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 developed the PC version of Alien Breed in 8086 machine code, from scratch without access to the original Amiga source. So my good friend Stuart Hodgkinson (Merlin the happy pig) played the original game end-to-end making notes of every aspect of the gameplay, so I could replicate it in the PC recreation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some brief words here? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack-portfolio-type":[22],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[18],"class_list":["post-802","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jetpack-portfolio-type-conversion-game","jetpack-portfolio-tag-18"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/802","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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/802\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjetpack-portfolio-type&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miraclestudios.co.uk\/gavinwadeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjetpack-portfolio-tag&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}