{"id":16146,"date":"2012-06-20T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=16146"},"modified":"2012-06-20T05:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T12:27:41","slug":"valley-without-wind-update-stars-jatana-buffaloe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/06\/20\/valley-without-wind-update-stars-jatana-buffaloe\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Without Wind update stars Jatana Buffaloe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"16146\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Whole_new_Valley.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Whole_new_Valley.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Whole_new_Valley\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16149\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/christophermpark.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/reflections-on-valley-without-winds.html\">exhaustive, frank, and informative write-up<\/a> of the long journey between versions 1.0 and 1.1 of A Valley Without Wind, designer Chris Park begrudgingly concedes that maybe players will want to name their own characters.  So that&#8217;s one of the many new features in version 1.1.  But Park seems pretty proud of his random name generator.  As he notes, it came up with the name &#8220;Judge Glass&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I was all, like, yeah, whatever, Mr. Developer Man.  I know game designers are proud of the effort they put into their fancypants randomness generators.  I&#8217;m sure Valley Without Wind knows what it&#8217;s doing when it comes to terrain, because it makes really cool places for me to explore given the infinite breadth and depth of its world.  But I think I&#8217;ll just stick to my own character names, thankyouverymuch.<\/p>\n<p>At which point the following character name came up randomly: <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"16146\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Jatana_Buffaloe.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Jatana_Buffaloe.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jatana_Buffaloe\" width=\"176\" height=\"29\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, okay, you got me.  Not only is that one going to stick, it&#8217;s probably going to make it&#8217;s way into other games.  Well played, Valley Without Wind.<\/p>\n<p>As for the 1.1 update, boy, it&#8217;s a doozy.  If you played AI War, Chris Park&#8217;s last game, you know how drastically it was overhauled based on post-release feedback.  That overhaul just happened in Valley Without Wind and I couldn&#8217;t be more delighted with how different it is.  It went from being a game I respected more than I liked to a game I really like.  No caveat needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Valley Without Wind update stars Jatana Buffaloe - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/06\/20\/valley-without-wind-update-stars-jatana-buffaloe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Valley Without Wind update stars Jatana Buffaloe - 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