“No fucking staircase! Instead, if you shoot everything, the staircase appears. Gun Godz became an FPS on Venus, and the roguelike eventually got solved as Nuclear Throne.” “It’s a very obvious question, but it took us two years to arrive to it. “The question we arrived on was how do we fix this most efficient way to play?” he said. And it was just boring.”Īs a side note, he cautioned developers to never underestimate the ability of players to find the most efficient way to play their game, even if it makes the game boring for themselves. So the most efficient way to play the game was to avoid everything and get to the stairs. If you didn’t get hit, you wouldn’t die, and if you didn’t die you could run to the stairs and get to the next level. “People weren’t engaging with the combat, they were just trying to get to the staircase. “The problem was there was a staircase in every level that would take you to the next level,” he said. 'Bad questions aren’t necessarily bad - it’s just practice for better questions.' “We started wondering, why does the combat suck? Why is it so bad? Usually we’re good at that, but it was just not fun.” Asking this question, they discovered something rather simple.

But honestly when we started it, it was kind of shit! Combat was tedious.”

This prototype wound up becoming Nuclear Throne. “You beat the level by getting to the staircase and getting to the next level. “It was gonna be a top-down roguelike,” he said. But at the same time, bad questions aren’t necessarily bad - it’s just practice for better questions.'Īt Reboot Develop in Dubrovnik, Croatia last week, he gave the attending crowd some insight into how finding the right questions led Vlambeer down the right path.įirst, he discussed Gun Godz. The idea there’s no such thing as bad is silly. president maintain that is a good way to reach at least an initial point of settlement and open the road for communication between various groups of society in Syria,” he said.“You know how people say ‘there’s no such thing as bad questions, only bad answer?’” he posed. Security Council condemnation by vetoing two resolutions over the bloodshed. Russia and China have shielded Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from U.N. Medvedev said he supported peace envoy Kofi Annan’s mission to end fighting in Syria. president also met Russia’s outgoing leader, Dmitry Medvedev, on the sidelines of the summit, with missile defense in Europe, Iran and the conflict in Syria topping their agenda. Obama has urged Israel to hold off on any pre-emptive strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites to give sanctions and diplomacy more time to work. Iran says its nuclear program is purely peaceful, but Israel and Western nations believe it is moving towards a nuclear bomb that could change the regional balance of power. “Going forward, we’ll continue to seek discussions with Russia on a step we have never taken before - reducing not only our strategic nuclear warheads, but also tactical weapons and warheads in reserve,” he said.

Obama said he wanted to take arms control talks with the Russians to a new level. The United States and Russia are the two biggest nuclear powers, possessing thousands of warheads between them, arsenals that arms-control advocates say are capable of destroying the world several times over. strategic arsenal, a pledge he made in return for Republican votes that helped ratify the START treaty. conservatives who say Obama has not moved fast enough to modernize the U.S. “I firmly believe that we can ensure the security of the United States and our allies, maintain a strong deterrent against any threat, and still pursue further reductions in our nuclear arsenal,” he said.īut another arms accord with Moscow will be a tough sell to U.S. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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