
17: Climbing Gloves in the Jungle
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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How to Play a Platformer
type shift for those of you who don't know is a game where you basically have a couple of spin dials and each spin dial has a number of letters on it. You're trying to form multiple words out of a set of constrained letters in the game. The first time he showed it to me i said there's no way this is interesting it was way too trivial, says John Carmack. "It turns out it's not trivial at all right so you you made a small change to the way the word construction from letters was was done" He adds that these spaces like platformers are probably not fully explored.
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