In 2010, Limbo arrived on Xbox Live Arcade as a silent, monochrome puzzle platformer built almost entirely on what it refused to explain. David and Rob trace creator Arnt Jensen's six year path from a solitary sketch of a beach and a cave to the founding of Playdead alongside producer Dino Patti, and how that small studio grew to include designer Jeppe Carlsen and composer Martin Stig Andersen. They break down how visual design, sound design, and puzzle design each independently arrived at the same guiding principle of stripping away anything too clear or identifiable, and how the team's habit of discarding roughly seventy percent of everything they built became the actual engine behind the game's identity. Along the way, they explore the investor friction, the platform decisions, and the ambiguous ending that still divides players today. Join us as we learn by dying on today's trip down Memory Card Lane.

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