{"id":26,"date":"2013-01-26T20:49:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T01:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2013-01-26T20:50:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T01:50:33","slug":"2013-01-26-story-and-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"2013-01-26 Story and Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a trap &#8211; a cylinder on the ground opens up and a gun pops out.\u00a0 I had a pretty standard looking Gatling gun but it felt boring.<\/p>\n<p>One bit of fiction I want for this game is that the player is trapped and converted into a robot.\u00a0 The Ascendant are a robotic race that travels the galaxy collecting organic life and converting them to mechanical forms.\u00a0 They then pit these robots against each other to see which form is the most resilient.<\/p>\n<p>So with that in mind, I changed the Gatling gun to a trap door spider like creature that shoots from its head.\u00a0 I linked a video of its reveal below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Shockbots_2013.01.26.mov\">Shockbots_2013.01.26<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a trap &#8211; a cylinder on the ground opens up and a gun pops out.\u00a0 I had a pretty standard looking Gatling gun but it felt boring. One bit of fiction I want for this game is that the player is trapped and converted into a robot.\u00a0 The Ascendant are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shockbots.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}