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Alex Spencer

"There's always a loose end, trailing off into the distance": Inside the mind of a Metroidvania creator and how they spin up mysteries

UFO 50.

Do you remember the first time you found something in a video ganme that shouldn't be there? For the young Animal Well developer, Billy Basso, it was Super Mario Bros 3.

"It was such a profound memory to me that I can still picture it to this day," the developer says, his eyes going a little soft-focus. "I was at my neighbour's house – they used to babysit me when I was three or four years old – and they had a 13-inch CRT television sitting on their dining-room table, set up to play NES."

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