{"id":584,"date":"2025-11-17T11:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/stw1g24\/?p=584"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:27:42","slug":"nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/stw1g24\/2025\/11\/17\/nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Family &amp; Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The type of nostalgia I intend to evoke in the people that play my game, is childhood nostalgia. For me this surfaces when I think of a holidy I went on with my family in 2016 when I was 11. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know what type of nostalgia I feel when I think about it but I wanted to get different perspectives on it so I asked my family what kind of emotions they feel, key moments they remember, sights, sounds, scents etc that comes up when they look back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My mother &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Jellyrolls rocking, sportsbar cheering. Street artists bringing joy to a small crowd. Grabbing pizza in a Mickey box, ice cream in what felt like a million flavours. Feeling safe cocooned in that Disney bubble, in a part of Disney that feels like a secret that you want to guard closely\u2026 <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My oldest sister &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Clogging up camera rolls with photos of ducks because they remind of us somewhere known in a place half known, half dreamt.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My middle sister &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Best ice cream in the world, and zigzagging to hit 40,000 steps<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Take aways &#8211; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food &#8211; Ice cream, mickey pizza<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Locations &#8211; A sportsbar, the piano bar jellyrolls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attractions &#8211; Street artists along the boardwalk, lots of ducks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Holiday Photographs &#8211; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are pictures from the holiday I took all of them except for the one of me. These pictures demonstrate what kind of visual effects and look I want the game to have, blurry almost airbrushed with a glow emanating from them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/stw1g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/11\/IMG_0162-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/stw1g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/11\/IMG_0162-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/stw1g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/11\/IMG_0162-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/stw1g24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/11\/IMG_0162-768x576.jpg 768w, 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