Spelunky

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When Derek Yu released Spelunky for free in 2008, his roguelike inspired platformer took the indie game community by storm with its combination of classic platform mechanics, extreme difficulty, and random level generation Four years later, Spelunky s HD remake went on to become PC Gamer s Game of the Year and earn perfect scores from Polygon and Eurogamer But how is a perfect game made Spelunky is Boss Fight s first autobiographical book the story of a game s creation as told by its creator Using his own game as a vehicle, Derek Yu discusses such wide ranging topics as randomization, challenge, indifferent game worlds, player feedback, development team dynamics, and what s required to actually finish a game Grab some ropes, a mattock, and your favorite pug this book is going to dig deep. New Read [ Spelunky ] by [ Derek Yu ] – kino-fada.fr Read it through from beginning to end in one sitting, something I haven t done in about 15 years Of course very much dependent on my current obsession with the game, but Yu very clearly and interestingly goes into the depths of his creative process Hard to put down.Pretty good I read this on Kindle Cloud E Reader Dot com Truly, the future is here I already feel ripped off though that I paid 5Such a great read Spelunky, if you haven t played it, is a roguelike platformer Which means it s kinda like crossing The Legend of Zelda with Super Mario Bros with DD The gimmick is that the game randomly generates the levels Which sounds like it totally shouldn t work, but it totally does Through some clever coding, each level being made of tiles with certain rules, levels are always generated in such a way that the player can navigate from beginning to end using only movements that Such a great read Spelunky, if you haven t played it, is a roguelike platformer Which means it s kinda like crossing The Legend of Zelda with Super Mario Bros with DD The gimmick is that the game randomly generates the levels Which sounds like it totally shouldn t work, but it totally does Through some cl...Despite Spelunky being a masterpiece as close as you can get to a literally perfect videogame , I knew very little before reading this about it s creator Derek Yu I expected him to be some John Carmack style uber geek who dreams in C but he s anything but really remarkably down to earth and relatable It s fascinating learning from the horse s mouth how the game s features and systems came to be as part of Spelunky s rather long winded development.Maybe not one to read if you re not a Despite Spelunky being a masterpiece as close as you can get to a literally perfect videogame , I knew very little before reading this about it s creator Derek Yu I expected him to be some John Carmack style uber geek who dreams in C but he s anything but really remarkably down to earth and relatable It s fascinating learning from the horse s mouth how the game s feature...Derek Yu is not just a great game designer but also a great writer Spelunky is entertaining book full of interesting little stories from game development and designing advices If you are interested in game development, you should read it.A quick, delightful read I m glad I read this after watching Indie Game the movie, because most of the main people in that movie make an appearance in this book in one way or another I particularly like his idea of finishing projects as being it s own skill He mentione...Super interesting book about the development of the indie game Spelunky, written by the game s main developer I really liked it Seeing the backbone of the random generation inherent in the game as wel...I contributed to Boss Fight Books Kickstarter campaign pretty much solely for this book While a bunch of them looked interesting, at the time of the campaign I was subject to the austerity inherent in founding a startup There were two reasons why I couldn t pass up the Spelunky book, though above the fact that the digital copy was inexpensive 1 a couple of years ago, I played a lot of Spelunky a lot of Spelunky 2 this is one of the few only books in the series written by the I contributed to Boss Fight Books Kickstarter campaign pretty much solely for this book While a bunch of them looked interesting, at the time of the campaign I was subject to the austerity inherent in founding a startup There were two reasons why I couldn t pass up the Spelunky book, though above the fact that the digital copy was inexpensive 1 a couple of years ago, I played a lot of Spelunky a lot of Spelunky 2 this is one of the few only books in the series written by the sub...This is a thoroughly enjoyable little read I would really only recommend this to a reader who has actually spent some time playing Spelunky, because even if it is super fascinating to see some of the creative process explained from the game developer himself, it seemed necessary to have at least a passing familiarity with the source material to appreciate certain sections Regardless, this was very entertaining and extremely interesting to go behind the scenes into the world of indie This is a thoroughly enjoyable little read I would really only recommend this to a reader who has actually spent some time playing Spelunky, because even if it is super fascinating to see some of the creative process explained from the game developer himself, it seemed necessary to ha...I really enjoyed Derek s discussion about the development and the reasoning behind many of his decisions However, as the book went along it seemedandlike writing this book wasof a burden than a pleasure I greatly appr...

Spelunky
  • English
  • 25 June 2019
  • Paperback
  • 140 pages
  • 1940535115
  • Derek Yu
  • Spelunky