The Creators Of Into The Breach Came Very Close To Giving Up On It

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🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Justin Ma and Matthew Davis, the creators of FTL and Into The Breach, sat down with Jason and Maddy at GDC 2019 to discuss the intense creative stress involved in making their most recent game. Despite wanting to pull the plug on Into The Breach many times, the duo forged onward and made a strategy game that is elegant in its simplicity. In the second half of the show, Christine Love joins us to talk about her past visual novels (Analogue: A Hate Story, Ladykiller In A Bind) and her pivot towards making an RPG called Get In The Car, Loser! which will have actual combat mechanics alongside the dialogue trees. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:52.2	And we are back once again. My name is Jason Schreier, and I'm joined again by Manny Myers.
0:56.8	Yes, you are.
0:57.5	And right now we have the co-founders of subset games,
1:01.5	who you might know from their brilliant games, FTL,
1:05.2	and most recently Into the Breach, Justin Ma and Matthew Davis.
1:08.5	Hello, guys.
1:09.2	Hello.
1:09.7	Hi, everybody.
1:10.4	Thank you so much for coming
1:11.3	on the show and for taking time out of your day that you could have been using to make more maps for
1:15.9	into the breach. What are you trying to say? That's what you normally would have been doing this week,
1:21.4	right? Not GMC. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't give them to anyone, though, just for ourselves. Oh, of course. Yeah, they shouldn't, yeah, yeah, we don't need more maps.
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