
33: Making Generous Games with Terry Cavanagh (Dicey Dungeons)
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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Super Hexagon: A Game That Gives You Permission to Keep Playing
I'm thinking about how to make a survival game that can capture that feeling of like I've survived for six hours in one game and everyone else is still alive. Super Hexagon when you watch someone play it it feels impossible and then you do it and it's actually not impossible right because the games controls are forgiving. The difficulty caps out so when you get into the world of people hacking the game to run a 1.1 speed or 1.25 speed and like this is the next level of challenge oh my god okay that inhumaneSo yeah, there's a video of Terry playing it on stage at Fantastic Arcade and just playing it front to back but he doesn't know either
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