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06: Making Spelunky 2 with Derek Yu

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Origins of Spelunky One

I just felt like if I couldn't work with somebody who both had a pretty intimate understanding of spelunky one, especially from a technical point of view. Plus, I just really enjoyed working with them on the port. And I think we just really meshed well and they're really cool, easy going guys. So that was really important too. But in those early days too, was there ever a world where either spelunky too was sort of almost like a different genre or more substantially different game? Or conversely, if it was more similar or if it was still spelunky but as like a new IP essentially, or was it always as we see it now in your

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