‘Mathematical masculinity’

Get our own Jonathan Holmes and Action Button Entertainment’sTim Rogersin a room together and magic will happen. Here the two are at PAX East discussingVideoball, a “real-time strategy shooting sports game” that’s far deeper than its simplistic art would seem to indicate.

“The original idea for this was I wanted to make a game as deep asStarCraftthat used only one button and all of my ideas were really bad … This is definitely, absolutely not that,” explains Tim. If you watch only one of Holmes’ PAX interviews, I’d make it this one.

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A little something extra for those of you left scratching your head after the interview. Excuse me while I leave this video playing in a separate tab for its absurdly catchy tune.

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