{"id":617,"date":"2017-02-16T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/02\/16\/get-your-smash-on-with-this-lemonade-inspired-game\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:43:00","slug":"get-your-smash-on-with-this-lemonade-inspired-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/02\/16\/get-your-smash-on-with-this-lemonade-inspired-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Smash On With This \u2018Lemonade\u2019 Inspired Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In honor of Queen Bey herself and her many Grammys, some members of her Beyhive created a fantastic 8-bit game based on her music video <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lemonade<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLemonade Rage\u201d lets players assume the role of Beyonc\u00e9 as she smashes through cars and haters, collecting lemons as she goes. The game is an automatic runner, meaning the character begins to move forward as soon as the game starts, and picks up speed as you progress through the level. You\u2019ll also be faced with obstacles, such as haters and Illuminati conspiracy theorists, that you must avoid by using your arrow keys. As the game picks up speed, it gets surprisingly difficult as more haters block your path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualnews.com\/?attachment_id=144991\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-144991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-vn_img wp-image-144991\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/visualnews-wp-media-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14144823\/Lemonade-Rage-700x406.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The game is the brainchild of Joe Laquinte, Justin Au, Line Johnson, and Colby Spear, three designers and presumably big fans of Beyonc\u00e9. The design of the game is reminiscent of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Double Dragon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an 80s beat \u2018em up video game, and the music, an 8-bit remix cover version of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hold Up<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by 8-Bit Universe, really makes it feel like you\u2019re playing an old arcade game. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Try the game out for yourself <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/lemonade-rage.com\/#game\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and let us know how you do!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: Visual News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Queen Bey herself and her many Grammys, some members of her Beyhive created a fantastic 8-bit game based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2017\/02\/Lemonade-Rage-700x406.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-9X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}