{"id":11159,"date":"2023-08-11T13:38:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T11:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/11\/a-playful-angle-on-global-heating-wood-and-weather\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T13:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T11:38:40","slug":"a-playful-angle-on-global-heating-wood-and-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/11\/a-playful-angle-on-global-heating-wood-and-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"A playful angle on global heating: Wood and Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Offer a wooden city a helping hand in this beguiling Australian climate puzzler<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever spent time in Melbourne, Australia, you will undoubtedly have heard a local explain their \u201cfour seasons in one day\u201d lifestyle. Perhaps you were told to pack a raincoat and some heavy-duty sunscreen, or warned of hail on a sunny day. This typical Melbournian weather chatter is something the team at Paper House revelled in when developing their cosy god game <a href=\"https:\/\/woodweather.com\/\">Wood and Weather<\/a>, imbuing it with a distinctly local feel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes the weather interesting is how humans react and interpret it,\u201d says game director Terry Burdak, who took an introductory course at the Bureau of Meteorology during Wood and Weather\u2019s development. \u201cI wanted to create a game where you get to see a bunch of little people respond to the change of weather in unexpected ways and how it can influence their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/aug\/11\/wood-and-weather-pc-games-preview\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d928067cd1641df1e4db1b0995f53932cf8fe9ea\/764_386_1157_695\/master\/1157.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ebcf692b90fd28258f4cf7f804abee36\" title=\"A playful angle on global heating: Wood and Weather\" \/>Offer a wooden city a helping hand in this beguiling Australian climate puzzler<br \/>\nIf you\u2019ve ever spent time in Melbourne, Australia, you will undoubtedly have heard a local explain their \u201cfour seasons in one day\u201d lifestyle. Perhaps you were told to pack a raincoat and some heavy-duty sunscreen, or warned of hail on a sunny day. This typical Melbournian weather chatter is something the team at Paper House revelled in when developing their cosy god game Wood and Weather, imbuing it with a distinctly local feel.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat makes the weather interesting is how humans react and interpret it,\u201d says game director Terry Burdak, who took an introductory course at the Bureau of Meteorology during Wood and Weather\u2019s development. \u201cI wanted to create a game where you get to see a bunch of little people respond to the change of weather in unexpected ways and how it can influence their lives.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offer a wooden city a helping hand in this beguiling Australian climate puzzler If you\u2019ve ever spent time in Melbourne, Australia, you will undoubtedly have heard a local explain their \u201cfour seasons in one day\u201d lifestyle. Perhaps you were told to pack a raincoat and some heavy-duty sunscreen, or warned of hail on a sunny &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/11\/a-playful-angle-on-global-heating-wood-and-weather\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A playful angle on global heating: Wood and Weather<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}