
19: The Organized Chaos of Edmund McMillen
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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The Pragmatic Decision to Make a Puzzle Platformer
The original Meat Boy was the most successful flash game that I'd ever made. It had like eight million plays within its first couple of months of release. The carrying lights around and whatever isn't illuminated, the light only goes out a certain extent isn't physically present. Right. And so then there's a lot of puzzle stuff around that. And so I saw those games and you mind you that was around the time that we also also saw the brave prototype. Yeah. "I'm not going to take some crazy risk when I have no income"
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