{"id":3393,"date":"2015-06-22T14:13:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2015-06-22T19:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T02:57:38","slug":"electric-love-potato-desktop-assistant-potatoware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/electric-love-potato-desktop-assistant-potatoware","title":{"rendered":"Electric Love Potato (Desktop Assistant)&#8230; Potatoware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think about it: Potatoware. Potato software. I feel like this is the beginning of something wonderful. Hopefully a trend. Thus my contribution to this (yet to happen) potatoware trend.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to unveil to the world Electric Love Potato!<\/p>\n<p>You can download it from itch.io: <a href=\"http:\/\/alienmelon.itch.io\/electric-love-potato\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/alienmelon.itch.io\/electric-love-potato<\/a><br \/>\nOr GameJolt: <a href=\"http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/other\/electric-love-potato\/75231\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/other\/electric-love-potato\/75231\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/ElectricLovePotato.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What is Electric Love Potato you may ask?<br \/>\nGood question!<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t really know, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Electric Love Potato is a virtual potato desktop assistant that offers positive reinforcement, serenades you as you work, and creates random potato recipes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are like 12 songs. So it&#8217;s also a potato album. Potato music&#8230; hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/IMG_3010.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The recipes are generated somewhat randomly. Just like skinning a cat, there are only so many ways to cook a potato. There are a few &#8220;base recipes&#8221; (like mashed, baked, boiled) and the toppings\/sauces are random. Mostly involving cheese.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/taterrecipe.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those things where the idea totally possessed me and it was all I could think about until I did it. So I took time off this weekend to finally do it. I am unapologetic. The world needs this.<\/p>\n<p>I am so happy to also say that Electric Love Potato made it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2015\/06\/22\/electric-love-potato-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rock, Paper, Shotgun<\/a>. It was a thrilling surprise, but also prove to me that the previous statement is true: the world really needs potatoware.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/potatorps.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, jokes aside, I made Electric Love Potato because I needed something for when I get depressed while working. It&#8217;s been in the back of my mind&#8230; or to-do list for a while&#8230; I think I said that already.<br \/>\nSomething I can just run in the background to cheer me up (with it&#8217;s steady stream of compliments and silly songs)&#8230; As a little depression medicine. :) &#8230;As much of a reason something like this needs, to exist. I don&#8217;t think it needs a reason. Pointless ridiculously dumb ideas are the best!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still working fully on the Steam version of <a href=\"http:\/\/tetrageddon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tetrageddon Games<\/a>, and its next release, Anatomically Incorrect Dinosaurs. Hopefully I will have more to show soon.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m here&#8230; I don&#8217;t think I posted this here&#8230; A while ago I made this cute webcam experiment called <a href=\"http:\/\/alienmelon.itch.io\/error02\" target=\"_blank\">PRINT_ERROR02<\/a> It&#8217;s for making spooky selfies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/HIDE_0.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok, then. More soon!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been making its rounds on Twitter, and I&#8217;m so happy how people are putting it to use. I just got this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alienmelon\">@alienmelon<\/a> electric love potatoes are such a boon to the world <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/T1sEB4DWCR\">pic.twitter.com\/T1sEB4DWCR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Loren Schmidt (@LorenSchmidt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LorenSchmidt\/status\/613177688908410880\">June 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nRunning more than one. I&#8217;m laughing and can&#8217;t type!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about it: Potatoware. Potato software. I feel like this is the beginning of something wonderful. Hopefully a trend. Thus my contribution to this (yet to happen) potatoware trend. I would like to unveil to the world Electric Love Potato! You can download it from itch.io: http:\/\/alienmelon.itch.io\/electric-love-potato Or GameJolt: http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/other\/electric-love-potato\/75231\/ What is Electric Love Potato you may ask? Good question! I don&#8217;t really know, but&#8230; &#8220;Electric Love Potato is a virtual potato desktop assistant that offers positive reinforcement, serenades you as you work, and creates random potato recipes.&#8221; There are like 12 songs. So it&#8217;s also a potato album. Potato&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-werks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}