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26: The Nick and Andy Show

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Rogue in Indie Games

I imagine that Spelunky really put it on sort of the modern radar, even if it is not a true Rogue like. So... Who cares? Yeah, I'm a copy curious about it. And then it just became this refrain sort of in indie games, and a lot of those things were chalked up to Spelunky and being Spelunky likes perhaps. Until we played Brogue really for the show, it wasn't a thing where I had, well, I guess I played some sheer and mystery dungeon, which was awesome. But I think because I went in that direction from front to back, it gave me an appreciation,. I was still able to enjoy these things

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