
48: Making It Personal with Shawn Alexander Allen (Treachery in Beatdown City)
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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How Sean Persisted and Shipped to Beat Down City
Sean: I've been working on comic books my whole life. As I got older all the comics got more gritty and like more realistic and whatever even if they weren't like realistic they just got more like visceral or whatever bad words but then I kept wanting to make this JRPG that was supposed to be like Chrono Trigger times 100 or whatever which you know it's like what a 15 year old kid says i want to make something with a hundred endings and all these different things as he drew a lot of them. He also talks about his love for scotch, art magazine editor in chief who hated any sort of poetry he tried to write so he basically gave up on that
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