{"id":48,"date":"2005-05-04T23:19:46","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T06:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-05-04T23:19:46","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T06:19:46","slug":"74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shaking Off the Myst&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <strong>Chuck Carter <\/strong>has just opened a new blog titled <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckcarterstudios.com\/blog\/\">&#8220;Shaking Off the Myst&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck is a phenomenal digital artist, who was one of the designers of *Myst*, arguably the first megahit computer game. Chuck and I *almost* got to work on a couple of projects together a few years ago, but they fell victim to the dotcom crash.  One rather bizarre digital sketch survives, however:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevegerber.com\/images\/DestroyerD.jpg\" alt=\"Big Duke\" align='center'\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yup. That&#8217;s a digital <strong>Destroyer Duck<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck plans to talk about the history of computer gaming and graphics &#8212; and, I presume, the future of the field &#8212; from the perspective of someone who was there at the beginning. If you&#8217;re at all interested in game development or the evolution of computer graphics, you&#8217;ll find his opinions and recollections fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Chuck Carter has just opened a new blog titled &#8220;Shaking Off the Myst&#8221;. Chuck is a phenomenal digital artist, who was one of the designers of *Myst*, arguably the first megahit computer game. Chuck and I *almost* got to work on a couple of projects together a few years ago, but they fell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}