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23: Reinventing Basketball (and Spelunky) with Andy Hull (Dunk Lords)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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How to Make Dunklords Really Good

"I can't tell you how many prototypes I've tossed out because I couldn't make them really good," he says. "The solution is staring you right in the face and it's the tiniest little thing." The game was originally billed as a sports game with fighting, but there aren't any other fighting moves in the game. It led to all these weird things like money appearing on the court where people were dictating if they wanted to score or pick up money.

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