[Dev Talk] Dust Bunny with Adam Saltsman

Sean and Alon are joined by Adam Saltsman, co-founder of Finji, designer of Canabalt, and creator of Flixel. On today's episode, we're discussing Dust Bunny – Adam's 12.5th PICO-8 release since last October! Hopping off from Dust Bunny, we explore the immediacy of the PICO-8 development environment, designing by playing, and the intimate relationship between designers and players. Find Adam at: Bluesky: itch.io : Finji: — TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:06 - Describe PICO-8 and designing with PICO-8 00:10:15 - Adam’s design process (for Dust Bunny specifically) 00:18:40 - A curve of discovery and the designer player relationship 00:34:00 - 12.5th PICO game (a quarter of the way to a full UFO50) 00:40:04 - 90% bad ideas 00:46:45 - What do you do to rest? 00:50:05 - Outro and Adam’s links — SHOW NOTES Dust Bunny: PICO-8: Cave of Cards: Celeste: Dark Souls: Desktop Dungeons: Doom: Dungeon Synth album that Adam mentioned: Elden Ring: Mirror's Edge: Mole Mole: Prince of Persia: PuzzleScript: Quake: Rat Dreams: Sokoban: Super Mario Maker: Tetris: UFO 50: Wipeout: Zachtronics: — WIDE FLANK LINKS Join the Discord: Support the show: The rest:

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[Dev Talk] Dust Bunny with Adam Saltsman is an episode from Wide Flank by Wide Flank: Happy Gaming.

This episode is 00:51:25 long.

This episode was published on May 28, 2025.

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