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Game designer and philosopher Bennett Foddy joins merritt to talk culture morphing, game clones, and the afterlife of the author.
Bennett is @bfod on Twitter. You can find more of his work at foddy.net.
Get Rec'd:
- Bennett Rec's: Eating grapefruit by peeling it instead of with a spoon
- merritt Rec's: Yellowcake
Works Cited:
- Bennett Foddy Gets Under It With Tim Rogers: The Turbo Tunnel From Battletoads (1991)!
- Flappy Bird
- Threes
- QWOP
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
- Scrubs
"What I'm trying to do is give due respect to people liking things for their own reasons, and not try to force everyone to like things the way I want them to like them. When I was thinking of Getting Over It as a narrative game, I was thinking of it as a game that would be of interest to maybe ten thousand people. And if it has to be understood as a reaction piece to be enjoyed by ten million people, it's difficult to object to that."
- Bennett Foddy on making art