Episode 12
12: Into the Breach with Jay Ma
The Secret Lives of Games · Nick Suttner
February 14, 20191h 31m
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Show Notes
Jay Ma of Subset Games joins us to discuss the design of her 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:
'Into the Breach' Didn't Click Until I Played it Like an EMT
Into the Breach - Fantastic Arcade 2017 Developer Commentary