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05: The Design of Spelunky

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Jungle in Spinky

A bomb that's above and to the left of a gem can have an effect on it. The downward force gets inverted and the gem is launched upwards so it goes up into the right because those forces are so close to each other. "That i think is what leads to a lot of the interesting physics behavior in the game" says tripmo.

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