
58: Easing into Hades with Supergiant Games
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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The Mirror in Hades
The mirror is the way that you put points into your progression. It's not the only reason people are like getting through, it's ecause they are learning and getting more proficient. How did you know that you were designing something that was going to eventually fit all these kinds of systems? I think in some ways, our previous games gave us some confidence in this. The initial pact of punishment is really different throm the one that ended up shipping. And godmode basically gives you a a damage buff. So you take less damage from enemies as like a flat amount of damage but then as you play the game,. that buff goes up and up and up.
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