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28: Surviving Overland with Adam Saltsman

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Game Isn't Hard When You Understand the Rules of the World You're In

I just found generally your approach to not so much just pure challenge and difficulty, but the way you introduce people to the world seem super intentional. And I think actually doing that put me more in the survival mindset and made me experiment in a way that maybe I wouldn't otherwise. Like we definitely was a goal very early on to make a game that required a certain amount of creativity and like a kind of like MacGyver mindset. But it did feel like something about that would clash with all of the rest of the emotional palette that we wanted to produce in the game.

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