{"id":1522,"date":"2025-11-27T15:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:43:30","slug":"pusher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/pusher\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Idea &#8211; Pusher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1267\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/01\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1751\" style=\"width:850px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/01\/image-17.png 1267w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/01\/image-17-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/01\/image-17-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/01\/image-17-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1267px) 100vw, 1267px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My third prototype, Pusher, is a rhythm survival game where you draw in crowds of ravers to protect yourself from enemies and is the project I eventually chose to develop further for my <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/project-proposal\/\">Project Proposal<\/a>. It can be read more about in that linked document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initial idea came from a discussion with my father where he compared a rave to a swarm of bees, with the queen at the center. Combining this with ideas from my <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/90s-rave-culture-research\/\">90s Rave Culture Research<\/a> where DJ&#8217;s at the time described police raids and having to scatter made a game where one must combine slow, rhythmic movement to the beat with brief high-velocity dashes to escape enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below are development logs where I worked on the prototype:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/godot-prototyping-3\/\">Godot Prototyping 3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/extra-week-more-prototyping\/\">Extra Week \u2013 More Prototyping<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My third prototype, Pusher, is a rhythm survival game where you draw in crowds of ravers to protect yourself from enemies and is the project I eventually chose to develop further for my Project Proposal. It can be read more about in that linked document. The initial idea came from a discussion with my father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-year-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}