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14: Diversifying Play with Greg Johnson (ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Origins of Rogue

"I would be there and you know, three and four AM nonstop playing rogue just over and over again to see how far down into the dungeon I could get." "It really just completely captured my imagination. And so, you know, it wasn't it wasn't the first game I did out of the gate because I had been making games for what like, at least eight or nine years before we did Toe Jam and Earl," he says. "[Rogue] is still inspired by a lot of that that DNA and those experiences you had with the original rogue," she adds. 'There's a lot of sort of systems under the hood that feel like that'

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