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

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Mid Range Jumpers in the NBA

The game is not intended to be like the NBA at all. If anything, it's supposed to be an arcade game first and a sports game second. I wasn't shy about taking out stuff that I didn't like about basketball, but I also was really conscious about keeping the stuff that I really liked and thought worked well. One of your items that I like a lot are these gloves that make three point shots worth four points while you're behind in the score, but otherwise they're only worth two points. That actually reminded me of some of the items in Splunky that, um, until you really learned or wielded actually feels like it has its own like difficulty curve, even if it

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