Slay the Spire 2 and Building the Deckbuilder Genre with Mega Crit's Casey Yano

Podcast: Game Maker's Notebook · Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

Opublikowano: 2026-08-24

Karrie Shao chats with Mega Crit Games Co-Founder Casey Yano. Together they discuss developing the Slay the Spire series which helped kick off the deckbuilder genre; design pillars and an emphasis on clear information; how streamers picking it up lead to its meteoric rise; what they added to the formula in Slay the Spire II and how they implemented coop; how they parse feedback; and what happened when they upset a large portion of their Chinese audience. This episode is supported by Xsolla iam8bit Episode Host: Karrie Shao Producer...