Luke Muscat, gamemaker (Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride).

Luke Muscat, gamemaker (Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride).

My guest today is Luke Muscat, the Australian video game designer behind some of the best-known smart phone games yet made. After graduating from Queensland University of Technology with a degree in IT and Games, he joined Halfbrick Studio, a game developer in Brisbane that specialised in games licensed from film and TV.


There he designed a simple yet compelling iPhone game in which players must slice fruit thrown into the air by swiping the device's touch screen with their finger. Fruit Ninja released in 2010. Within a year it had sold more than 20 million copies. In 2011 my guest developed another once-in-a-lifetime hit with Jetpack Joyride, a game that won a slew of design awards and that continues to be a bestseller today. After a stint working as head of design for the company that makes Snapchat, in 2022 my guest went independent, and is now preparing to release his first indie title, Feed The Deep, a lovecraftian deep sea roguelike.


LINKS


Feed the Deep Steam Page

Luke's Game Dev YouTube Channel

Quake 'Annihilation' video.

Simon's 2013 New Yorker piece on 'endless runners'

Daryl Baxter's 50 Years of Boss Fights.

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