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05: The Design of Spelunky

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Indifferent World of Spellunky

Spelunky is such a unbelievably player centric design and it's such a smart design for this sort of brutal world. It spikes the difficulty that you're expecting so like sometimes spelunky is unbelievably utterly indifferent and ridiculously hard but also cozy and super friendly to you. will make the game winnable for you if only you could get it if only it would spawn in your run.

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