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19: The Organized Chaos of Edmund McMillen

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Origins of Isaac

I was playing original Spelunky during Super Me Boy development. I wanted to do arcade games and it's like you can't do arcade games anymore just doesn't work. One of the things I was thinking of was how could I make Smash TV a game I could play forever. Richard Garfield said he likes games with randomness from good algorithms so anything like Pac-Man falls into that category if you have randomly generated mazes but anyway again just throwing that in there right.

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