{"id":64,"date":"2011-08-22T07:15:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T07:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2021-09-27T04:22:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T04:22:14","slug":"mercenaries-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/mercenaries-2","title":{"rendered":"Mercenaries 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my favorite accomplishments has been pulling off some humor by means of gameplay. Timing a punchline is really hard when the player has control of the pacing.&nbsp; &#8220;The Devastator&#8221; was a fetch quest where the RPG-weilding Mercenary was sent to retrieve a classified weapon, only to find out The Devastator is a scooter with a flower basket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mercenaries 2 - The Devastator Contract\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KT7rTY_55wQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> *The above video is the product of numerous hard-working, talented, and awesome persons <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Mercs 2, Pandemic wanted to show off the Havok physics engine. It was a radical idea to make everything in the game destructible. Engineering provided Lua hooks for triggering Havok events like impulses, and it provided a great deal of versatility for me as a Designer.\u00a0 For the &#8220;River Cruise&#8221; mission I slapped a jet engine onto a motorboat.\u00a0 For a mission that was really a lure to pull the player across the map, the Jet Boat added a lot more fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[MGTV] Mercenaries II - Boat Ride (mission)\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvZlFrNpKUs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>*The above video is the product of numerous hard-working, talented, and awesome persons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite accomplishments has been pulling off some humor by means of gameplay. Timing a punchline is really hard when the player has control of the pacing.&nbsp; &#8220;The Devastator&#8221; was a fetch quest where the RPG-weilding Mercenary was sent to retrieve a classified weapon, only to find out The Devastator is a scooter&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/mercenaries-2\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mercenaries 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gameswahlquist.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}