In episode 2 of Humans Who Make Games – a podcast featuring in-depth conversations with the creators of some of the most highly regarded games today – comedian and host of the show, Adam Conover, talks with Derek Yu, the creator of Spelunky, Aquaria, Eternal Daughter and more.
Yu shares insights of his journey on getting into game design and chats about why he loves glitches in games and what it means to him when he sees a broken game.
Listen to Humans Who Make Games Episode 2.
The moment that drove Yu to go from an amateur game creator to actually make games for a living, was when he was in college working on his computer science degree at Berkeley – and completely burnt out. At the time, he was making games in his spare time, with few overlaps between his computer science courses and game creation.
Source: IGN.com How Spelunky Creator Derek Yu Ended Up Creating Games