http://tigsource.com/articles/2006/10/18/blast-miner-revisited en-us 40 <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tigsource/273512000/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/114/273512000_1507b1a582_m.jpg" width="240" height="179" hspace="10" vspace="5" align="left" alt="Blast Miner" /></a></p> <p>Edmund McMillen threw me an email after reading <a href="http://www.tigsource.com/articles/2006/10/16/blast-miner">my post</a> from yesterday, wanting to clarify his role in creating <a href="http://www.blastminer.com/">Blast Miner</a>. I definitely owe him that much!</p> <p>He basically explained that Cryptic Sea is a two-man team who wanted to make a small game to get back into the swing of things after their break from Gish. And he totally stands by the game.</p> <p>Which he should! And honestly, a creator should never feel obligated to do a certain kind of work to please an audience. As someone who likes to develop and draw, I&#8217;ve been on the wrong end of that stick. So I feel terrible for pushing it on Edmund and want to apologize to him for that.</p> <p>Does it really change my mind about Blast Miner? No, it doesn&#8217;t. I still think there are flaws in the gameplay and presentation that add up significantly. And I really would have liked to see something a little more bizarre in terms of a theme. But to assume that he did not stand by the game himself was a bad way to illustrate that point. Sorry, man.</p> Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:17:00 +0000 urn:uuid:5f8ebfae57357244c263e674f9f1728e Derek Yu http://tigsource.com/articles/2006/10/18/blast-miner-revisited Community <p>You heartless sod, Derek. ;)</p> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:32:25 +0000 urn:uuid: http://tigsource.com/articles/2006/10/18/blast-miner-revisited#comment-1266