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This is the Only Level (2009) — A Mischievous Loop on a Single Screen, from the Flash Era
On 8 August 2009, John Cooney (jmtb02) released This is the Only Level on Armor Games: a meta puzzle-platformer that replays the same single screen across 30 stages, rewriting only its rules each time. This article traces its rare path of preservation, surviving Flash's technical extinction to return, by the creator's own hand, as part of The Elephant Collection on Steam in 2023.
Inside Daniel Mullins's Philosophy — The Man Who Turns the Frame Over
A study of Daniel Mullins, creator of Inscryption, drawn from his own interviews and his GDC post-mortem. His philosophy of hooking players 'outside the rules,' his obsession with subverting expectations, the difficulty balancing he openly calls a failure, and the dilemma of a signature twist becoming predictable — read only from what he has said in public.
