Episode 12: Zipper

• 22 minutes

With Zipper for Playdate, game designer, developer, and philosopher Bennett Foddy wanted to share his love of the particular style of isometric tactics games he grew up playing on the ZX Spectrum–games that may be unfamiliar to people from the United States. Drawing on the influences of Akira Kurosawa, the anime and manga series “Bleach”, and the British game “Last Ninja 2,” Zipper is a beautifully-crafted homage to classic samurai films and 8-bit black and white games.

Show Notes

Read the transcript
The first level of Zipper, showing the name of the game and your sumurai character, ready for action.
The first level of Zipper, showing the name of the game and your sumurai character, ready for action.
Listen Now