{"id":297,"date":"2014-04-18T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T10:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2014-04-18T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T10:58:33","slug":"alone-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Alone in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been for a run round my local park and am pretty amazed by how quickly I get out of breath and start walking. Until I see another runner that is,\u00a0 at which point I find fresh motivation and summon the energy to start running again. While it could just be me being lazy and awful at running,\u00a0 I think this quite common and probably the reason that running with someone else works so well. It&#8217;s also probably one of the reasons that people are paid to set the pace in marathons.<\/p>\n<p>It struck me how similar this concept is to making your own games. When I lose my motivation and feel like giving up, I go to a conference,\u00a0 pub meetup or just talk with other game developers and the flames of my game dev desire are fanned once again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wpid-2014-04-18-10.59.56.jpg1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-04-18 10.59.56.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wpid-2014-04-18-10.59.56.jpg1.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another similarity I drew between the two is that whether you&#8217;re running a sprint (small game) or a marathon (big game),\u00a0 you&#8217;re still running and your effort is just as valid whichever you choose to do as long as you give it your best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been for a run round my local park and am pretty amazed by how quickly I get out of breath and start walking. Until I see another runner that is,\u00a0 at which point I find fresh motivation and summon the energy to start running again. While it could just be me being lazy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}