HackerClassic Game Postmortem - Another World
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Another World started each new level as a copy of the previous one, including character behavior and controls. When the protagonist changed, every copy needed an edit. The level files concealed a shared rule.
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I copied the previous one to keep the basicsfor every change I was making on generic things, I had to do it on all files