158: Moonlighting in the Dungeon with Mark Essen (Blood Dungeon)

We chat with Mark Essen (Nidhogg, Wheel World) about his "feverish bullet heaven platformer" Blood Dungeon. We discuss making a small game in the shadow of a bigger project, the constraints it takes to do it sanely, and building on the foundations of a nascent genre.
Discussed in this episode:
Messhof messhof.com
Blood Dungeon messhof.com/blooddungeon exp. zine - Vampire Survivors expzine.com/2026/07/21/vampire-survivors-poncl…
Death to the Self-Playing Game jank.cool/death-to-the-self-playing-game/?ref=…
Messhof Marchive messhof.com/freeware

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