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34: Getting Over Spelunky with Bennett Foddy

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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Yen, I Think You're on to Something.

Yen: The idea of oating a game to address how fans play it, which i think daily challenge is also that. But when you tink about things like no man's sky an the effect that it's had on that or there's a slippery slope. They're a sort of the mascified problem ofik, giving fans what they want when you complain too loudly. For the last ten years, just difficulty being saxy again. I'd say there was a time with, like, princeipersia, hands of time where it was like, ok, dying isn't fun any more. We don't die in games. And then eventually, with splunky and dark sols

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