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Luca Galante went from flipping burgers in Thornton Heath to accidentally creating a gaming sensation in one of the few true indie developer rags-to-riches tales

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[–] DrMango@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Kind of funny that Galante was programming slot machines prior to making the game as there's a lot of aspects of VS I've always thought were just great at triggering that good old reward circuit in the brain.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If anyone hasn't watched the documentary yet, I highly recommend it just for the recurring sight-gag. It killed me, every time.