Season 2 · Episode 14
Chance's Lucky Escape
Yann Margan and Julia Minamata on what they love most about adventure games (it's not the puzzles!) and how they subvert expectations in Chance's Lucky Escape!
July 17, 202529m 58s
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Show Notes
Has luck finally run out for the world’s luckiest dog? Chance’s Lucky Escape creators Yann Margan and Julia Minamata talk about the game’s origins, using ALL of Playdate’s controls, inspirations from retro cartoons and films, and the fun of subverting expectations.
Show Notes
- Chance’s Lucky Escape
- Goloso Games
- Julia Minamata
- Spike II: The Great Emu War
- The Crimson Diamond
- Recommendation Dog!!
- Xalavier Nelson, Jr. on Bluesky
- Strange Scaffold
- Cabel’s post about Julia’s twitch stream discovery
- Adventure X
- Inspector Waffles
- Text Parser Adventure
- La Chèvre
- Playdate Podcast s01e17: Saturday Edition and Star Sled
- Saturday Edition
- Kazuma Kiryu
- Yakuza/Like a Dragon Game Series
- Conor McGregor in Road House (2024)
- Spritesheets
- Episode page
- Episode transcript
Topics
playdateseason twohandheld gamespaniccrankindie gamesgame development1-bit artadventure gamespoint-and-click