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We're taking a much-needed week off, but please enjoy one of our favorite episodes from early on. We'll be back in two weeks with guest Terry Cavanagh to talk about his new roguelike deckbuilder (dicebuilder?) Dicey Dungeons - check it out and send us your questions! Anyways, on to our show:
Jay Ma of Subset Games joins us to discuss the design of her excellent sci-fi strategy game Into the Breach, from its Spelunky-inspired high/low-level design, to how they cracked its time-driven gameplay, to why throwing away 80% of their work...worked.
Things we talked about:
Jay Ma
Subset Games
FTL
Into the Breach
Input / Output Randomness
'Into the Breach' Didn't Click Until I Played it Like an EMT
Into the Breach - Fantastic Arcade 2017 Developer Commentary
Stephen's Sausage Roll
Return of the Obra Dinn
 By Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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We're taking a much-needed week off, but please enjoy one of our favorite episodes from early on. We'll be back in two weeks with guest Terry Cavanagh to talk about his new roguelike deckbuilder (dicebuilder?) Dicey Dungeons - check it out and send us your questions! Anyways, on to our show:
Jay Ma of Subset Games joins us to discuss the design of her excellent sci-fi strategy game Into the Breach, from its Spelunky-inspired high/low-level design, to how they cracked its time-driven gameplay, to why throwing away 80% of their work...worked.
Things we talked about:
Jay Ma
Subset Games
FTL
Into the Breach
Input / Output Randomness
'Into the Breach' Didn't Click Until I Played it Like an EMT
Into the Breach - Fantastic Arcade 2017 Developer Commentary
Stephen's Sausage Roll
Return of the Obra Dinn

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