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19: The Organized Chaos of Edmund McMillen

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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How to Make a Platformer Mario

Super Meat Boy is one of the games I've played most by far. The game has three hundred sixty levels, and that's not even counting dark levels. How did you manage to make so many in such a short amount of time? Well, it's a lot easier than you would imagine. It was just like making sure that all of the mechanics were never repeated. And then trim every trim the fat as much as I possibly could until it's this super pure platformer concept.

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