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Quotes from The Spelunky Showlike — Derek Yu

born 1982 United States

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It's not a final judgment of you, as a person and an artist, when you release a game.

The Spelunky Showlike (2018)

That might be the core of game design to me— making connections from every part of the game to every other part of the game.

The Spelunky Showlike (2018)

There's a certain glee [among game developers like Bennett and me] from players feeling frustrated and disappointed.

The Spelunky Showlike (2018)

This is a straight-up religious problem: the idea of the player and the developer.

The Spelunky Showlike (2018)

And I think that has been very influential on Spelunky 1 and 2, and it's just a type of design I really enjoy.

The Spelunky Showlike (2018)

It's actually because we really care about players, and these are emotions that you need to feel to have a well-rounded human experience in a video game.

The Spelunky Showlike (2018)

I've started to think of myself, personally, as a "work in progress" that will never reach completion— but in order to keep progressing, I have to release games.

The Spelunky Showlike (2018)

I think it has to do with fundamental differences in the way different designers want their game to be experienced, and also fundamental differences between different players and how they want to treat that relationship between the player of the game world and the designer.

The Spelunky Showlike (2018)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Derek Yu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.