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05: The Design of Spelunky

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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Pocket Run and the Insta Tournament

The idea with insta tournament was this this thought that like okay what if what if instead of doing a challenge once a day I look at how many people are playing the game and I adjust the challenges down such that in any given time frame there are like 10 people who are going to have competed. When pocket run came out I ran a tournament every three minutes so you just sit down you play you play one round of the game and it's tense because you really care about doing well.

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