12: Into the Breach with Justin Ma

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

• Episode: 12: Into the Breach with Justin Ma
• Website: Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
• Feed URL: https://eggplant.show/rss
• Duration: 01:31:52
• Published: 2019-02-14 18:00

Justin Ma of Subset Games joins us to discuss the design of his excellent sci-fi strategy game Into the Breach, from its Spelunky-inspired high/low-level design, to how they cracked its time-driven gameplay, to why throwing away 80% of their work...worked.

Things we talked about:

FTL

Into the Breach

Input / Output Randomness

'Into the Breach' Didn't Click Until I Played it Like an EMT

Into the Breach - Fantastic Arcade 2017 Developer Commentary

Stephen's Sausage Roll

Return of the Obra Dinn