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Feb 28, 2020

Mark Brown of Game Maker's Toolkit joins us to talk about the process behind his excellent series on game design. We discuss his recent video on randomness - diving deep on input/output randomness - as well as roguelike progression, and much more!

Things we discussed:

Game Maker's Toolkit

How (And Why) Spelunky Makes...


Feb 15, 2020

Ryan Clark of Brace Yourself Games (Crypt of the Necrodancer, Cadence of Hyrule) sashays in to chat with us about how he hit on his rhythm roguelike formula, layering in depth to make his systems sing, and how he's found - and repeated - indie game success.

Some things we discussed:

Brace Yourself Games

Crypt of the...