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11: Taking Back Roguelikes with Raigan Burns

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Whip Mechanic in Spelunky

"So much of your stuff lands on the cutting room floor even if like look you can make a thing and see it in isolation," he says. "That's also part of why it's so hard to look at something like spelunky ... they're all amazing because they're all there with each other" He calls out two things that have bothered him for every episode, including one where no-one mentioned lamu lana as an inspiration or borrowing mechanic from spelunky. 'I just don't know i feel like it really drove me crazy that at no point during the discussion did anyone be like oh yeah actually it's that's From Lamu Lana'

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