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What If A Love Eternal's Story Doesn't Explain Itself?
Toby Alden is a game designer and DJ based in Los Angeles. Their platformer Love Eternal — released today — is an eight-year collaboration with their brother Sam that grew from an earlier, near-unbeatable freeware game called Love. In this conversation, Toby talks about making music and games in parallel, the surprising amount of work a single animation frame can do, why they let the story operate on dream logic, and what it feels like to hand a creative problem to someone you trust completely.
(00:00) - Does the Story Have to Connect to the Mechanics?
(01:55) - Cave Story, Solo Dev, and the…
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