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44: Quarantine Arcade with Derek Yu

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Unique Features of Arcade Games

Derek: I arcade games are just so fascinating to me. The business model of arcades really force this type of design that was like, I call it lean and explosive. And you know, lean because you have to push players along to the interesting parts of the game as quickly as possible. It's such a it's such a unique business model to sell games in but it created such an interesting category of games. He says he has been influenced by Spelunky designers who want their games to be very full from beginning to end.

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