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Creator, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
About Lucio Cortazar
In a Buenos Aires apartment in 2015, Lucio Cortazar spent 18 months hand-coding every collision response in Getting Over It—not with Unity or Unreal, but raw C++ and OpenGL, deliberately avoiding modern game engines to preserve the 'grind' as architecture. He embedded ASCII art not as nostalgia, but as deliberate cognitive friction: each character cell maps to a physics vertex, forcing players to read terrain as both text and topography. The narration wasn’t recorded in a studio—it was captured in single-take voice memos during late-night subway commutes, edited only for breath pauses, preserving the tremor of real exhaustion. His most cited design decision—removing save points after the first 30 minutes—wasn’t cruelty, but an experiment in memory fidelity: he wanted players’ frustration to accumulate in muscle and recall, not just screen space. This isn’t about difficulty for its own sake; it’s about building a game where falling isn’t failure, but data—the slope, velocity, and spin become legible only through repetition, turning physics into autobiography.
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