BIZARRE: Casey yano - You Need To See This

Slay the Spire 2 fan's card pitches are so good, devs might steal them: "What the heck"

Mega Crit's community is doing the work for them

GamesRadar · Aug 20

Slay the Spire 2 lead says the garbage placeholder art is "important" and gen AI would ruin it: "People would judge the game as if it's a 1.0, fully developed video game"

AI-generated art looks "very strange," says Casey Yano

GamesRadar · Jul 14

Slay the Spire 2's lead birthed reviled boss Doormaker after "playing too much Deadlock," while Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke inspired another creature

"The original was based on the Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke"

GamesRadar · Jun 20

Slay the Spire 2 won't get an endless mode like Balatro because it limits "infinite strategies," but creator says "maybe a modder will think of a way to make it work"

Mega Crit might look into it at some stage, though

GamesRadar · Apr 20

Slay the Spire 2 avoids becoming "Sloppy Spire 2" by keeping the roguelike's roadmap light on dates

"Exacting deadlines produce sloppy uninspired work"

GamesRadar · Apr 19

Slay the Spire 2 dev rejects the concept of deadlines: 'I don't want Sloppy Spire 2'

There's a lot to come for the early access deckbuilder, but "exacting deadlines produce sloppy uninspired work," says Mega Crit.

PC Gamer · Apr 18

Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard'

Casey Yano says that, ultimately, reviewers are just using the tools they're given.

PC Gamer · Apr 2

Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'

Can you deduce precisely what Mega Crit is working on?

PC Gamer · Apr 2

Slay the Spire 2 dev teases 3 new modes: something "very competitive," one for players who don't "have the time" for "the Slay the Spire experience," and a new multiplayer setting

"We don't want to just make a bunch of things and be like, 'Here's 25 game modes.'"

GamesRadar · Apr 2

Slay the Spire 2 devs were caught off guard by 13,000 negative Steam review spike: "It was much more extreme than any previous types of negative feedback"

The China-led negative review wave is perfectly valid, though

GamesRadar · Apr 2