{"id":630,"date":"2025-05-14T23:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/?page_id=630"},"modified":"2025-05-14T23:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:48:17","slug":"vertical-slices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/vertical-slices\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertical Slice(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">A <strong>vertical slice<\/strong> is\u00a0a playable part of a game that demonstrates the core features of the final product.\u00a0It serves as a proof of concept and is typically used to secure funding from investors and publishers.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-ac956144 wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-628 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-slices\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/2025\/05\/14\/vertical-slice-2\/\" target=\"_self\" >Vertical Slice 2<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-border-color has-foreground-border-color\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This is the Vertical Slice for The Second Version of Those Left Behind This version of the game focuses on more interactivity between the player and the game world they&#8217;re in &#8211; having to build up their survival camp from scratch and immerse themselves in conversations with non-playable characters. The player must complete a linear&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/2025\/05\/14\/vertical-slice-2\/\">read me<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-05-14T23:46:21+00:00\">May 14, 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-322 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-slices\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/2025\/02\/11\/vertical-slice\/\" target=\"_self\" >Vertical Slice 1<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-border-color has-foreground-border-color\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A vertical slice is&nbsp;a playable part of a game that demonstrates the core features of the final product.&nbsp;It serves as a proof of concept and is typically used to secure funding from investors and publishers. This is the Vertical Slice for The First Version of Those Left Behind For simplicity of the vertical slice, we&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/2025\/02\/11\/vertical-slice\/\">read me<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-02-11T14:35:45+00:00\">February 11, 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vertical slice is\u00a0a playable part of a game that demonstrates the core features of the final product.\u00a0It serves as a proof of concept and is typically used to secure funding from investors and publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-630","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/thoseleftbehind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}