{"id":13671,"date":"2024-03-12T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T09:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/i-did-not-expect-so-many-games-about-peoples-pets-why-downpour-is-a-great-alternative-to-doomscrolling\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T09:37:16","slug":"i-did-not-expect-so-many-games-about-peoples-pets-why-downpour-is-a-great-alternative-to-doomscrolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/i-did-not-expect-so-many-games-about-peoples-pets-why-downpour-is-a-great-alternative-to-doomscrolling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I did not expect so many games about people\u2019s pets\u2019: why Downpour is a great alternative to doomscrolling"},"content":{"rendered":"

A simple and endearing game creation tool has me and thousands of others creating little shareable interactive games instead of pawing at the news on our phones<\/p>\n

Last week, while slowly suffocating on a packed train from Frome to London, I took out my phone and instead of doomscrolling social media, I made a game. It was an extremely basic game that required the player to correctly identify Westminster Palace\u2019s Big Ben tower in a photograph, but the experience was so engrossing that the journey flew by.<\/p>\n

The app I used to build my masterpiece was Downpour, by lone coder v Buckenham. Launched on App Store and Google Play last week, it\u2019s an intuitive program that lets you build games out of your own photos. You simply create a collage of images, add some text and save that as a page; you then add more pages and link them together to create your game. Transparent boxes on the screen form the hyperlinks \u2013 so say you use a photograph of Westminster, you can place a box around the Elizabeth Tower and when the player touches it, they\u2019ll be led to a page that says \u201cCongratulations, you\u2019ve found Big Ben\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nA simple and endearing game creation tool has me and thousands of others creating little shareable interactive games instead of pawing at the news on our phones
\nLast week, while slowly suffocating on a packed train from Frome to London, I took out my phone and instead of doomscrolling social media, I made a game. It was an extremely basic game that required the player to correctly identify Westminster Palace\u2019s Big Ben tower in a photograph, but the experience was so engrossing that the journey flew by.
\nThe app I used to build my masterpiece was Downpour, by lone coder v Buckenham. Launched on App Store and Google Play last week, it\u2019s an intuitive program that lets you build games out of your own photos. You simply create a collage of images, add some text and save that as a page; you then add more pages and link them together to create your game. Transparent boxes on the screen form the hyperlinks \u2013 so say you use a photograph of Westminster, you can place a box around the Elizabeth Tower and when the player touches it, they\u2019ll be led to a page that says \u201cCongratulations, you\u2019ve found Big Ben\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A simple and endearing game creation tool has me and thousands of others creating little shareable interactive games instead of pawing at the news on our phones Last week, while slowly suffocating on a packed train from Frome to London, I took out my phone and instead of doomscrolling social media, I made a game. …<\/p>\n

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