{"id":299,"date":"2006-04-06T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2006-04-06T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T10:16:00","slug":"waiting-for-a-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/06\/waiting-for-a-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for a call&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so busy lately it&#8217;s insane, but now I find myself with 20 minutes to spare.  I&#8217;ve just finished polishing one of the chapters of my book, Writing for Video Games, and am waiting for a conference call to discuss another writing project.<\/p>\n<p>The game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso, is going very well and due to lots of excellent feedback is looking and feeling better than ever.  Within the next couple of days I&#8217;m hoping to have a version ready that I can send to gaming sites and magazines for preview purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the work I&#8217;ve been putting into the game and the book, my art has been more than a little neglected.  I haven&#8217;t updated the Mr. Smoozles comic strip in ages and any other painting and drawing hasn&#8217;t even been getting a look in.  The only exception to this is the concept drawing I did of a robot, which I passed onto a 3D artist friend of mine.  I&#8217;m hoping he can turn it into something really stunning as he&#8217;s such a talented modeler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so busy lately it&#8217;s insane, but now I find myself with 20 minutes to spare. I&#8217;ve just finished polishing one of the chapters of my book, Writing for Video Games, and am waiting for a conference call to discuss another writing project. The game, Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso, is going very well and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/06\/waiting-for-a-call\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waiting for a call&#8230;&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}