{"id":12518,"date":"2018-02-09T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314537"},"modified":"2018-02-09T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T23:09:00","slug":"the-hands-free-development-of-dig-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/the-hands-free-development-of-dig-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"The hands-free development of Dig Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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– Developer\u00a0of Dig Dog<\/em>\u00a0Rusty Moyher\u00a0on the process of coding by voice.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Ars Technica<\/a>\u00a0published earlier today, game developer Rusty Moyher\u00a0shared how he programmed and created art assets for\u00a0Dig Dog<\/em>\u00a0using his voice and an interesting alternative to a hands-on mouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After being diagnosed with Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) five years ago, Moyher\u00a0needed to find an alternative to traditional keyboard and mouse development.<\/p>\n

Relief came in the form of taking full breaks from typing and using a mouse, but that wouldn’t be good enough. “I still want to make games,” he admitted.<\/a> “It\u2019s hard to imagine any career or job that doesn\u2019t involve computers.”<\/p>\n

In the pursuit of proving that video games could be developed without using his hands, Moyher\u00a0found a video by developer Travis Rudd<\/a>\u00a0which broke down how he customized the voice recognition software\u00a0Dragon NaturallySpeaking to write code in Python using only his voice.<\/p>\n

Despite warnings from various forums about the limitations of coding using Dragon,\u00a0Moyher decided to give it a try.\u00a0“The commands you come up with, basically in a made-up language, are all built to be quickly and easily recognized by Dragon,” Moyher\u00a0explains, saying\u00a0he recommended<\/a> “short, tight words or phrases that can be executed quickly.”<\/p>\n

Coding using this method meant creating an entirely new vocabulary.\u00a0“I needed to build a vocabulary that was suited for what I was doing that I was familiar with,” he said.<\/a> “The process of coding by voice is, I have to do programming tasks, like normal, and come up with commands and modify the system. On top of that, all at once, I also have to remember these [shortcut terms].”<\/p>\n

With the programming taken care of, Moyher needed to figure out how to create art assets for\u00a0Dig Dug<\/em>\u00a0without needing to use a mouse. The full interview at Ars Technica<\/a>\u00a0goes into how he did just that.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– Developer\u00a0of Dig Dog\u00a0Rusty Moyher\u00a0on the process of coding by voice. In an interview with Ars Technica\u00a0published earlier today, game developer Rusty Moyher\u00a0shared how he programmed and created art assets for\u00a0Dig Dog\u00a0using his voice and an interesting alternative to a hands-on mouse.\u00a0 After being diagnosed with Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) five years ago, Moyher\u00a0needed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}