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16: The Spelunky Book Club

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Glitches in a Game

The book has a really valuable discussion from Derek's point of view about what does it mean to have glitches in your game. I've written about this a little bit in polygon so I think six years ago just how all the glitches and other weird features of spelunky are combined in this sequence to allow this kind of amazing feat to be put together. You have to link the Doug's very like play-by-play right it's fantastic. Right so Derek puts in this secret item the eggplant if you sacrifice a present on the altar you get this item that plays the silly music. If you throw the eggplant at Yama his face turns into a big eggplant, which

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