I don't think it's wild to make the assumption that if you were the designer behind

massive video game hits like Super Meat Boy, finding of Isaac, that you would be pretty

confident in a game you've been working on for many, many years is good, people are going to like

it, and you're not nervous about what's going to happen when you

hit publish.

And yet, when I hopped on a call with designer Edmund McMillan, who is someone I've

chatted to many, many times over the years, one of my favorite people to talk to, just a really

insightful, interesting character, designer, artist, regardless of whether the games that he

works on and makes, if you've never liked his art style, if, artist, regardless of whether the games that he works on,

it makes, if you've never liked his art style, the games don't really click for you,

he is so thoughtful about the work that he does that I am always anxious and excited to have a conversation with Edmund.

And so I had, for the last couple of weeks weeks been playing Mugenics, which is the new

tactics focused breeding cats video game that is coming out on Steam this week. I've played

something like 15 hours. I've almost finished the first act. I think it's excellent. I think

it's interesting. I think it's weird. I think if you didn't like Edmund's art before, you're not going to like it now.

I think it's very approachable for folks who have not played tactic games or are like me

and mostly only play X common fire emblem games because they're simple and more straightforward.

But with this conversation, what you're about to hear is, I think honestly a real conversation

about vulnerability. It's a conversation in which we talk about how Edmund is feeling going

into the release of eugenics, a game that is probably the least compromised in terms of

he's seen a lot of success. He's been able to spend the time, the money, the resources into

building this.

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