Boom ’n’ bust

The ability to use bombs to enter the code for objects – represented here as a physical space – had an unusual side effect. “One thing I didn’t realise until our programmer implemented it is that you can bomb the bomb,” Dillon says. “And when you’re inside the code rooms for the bomb, you can bomb the machines inside the code rooms to go inside the code for the code rooms. That’s a really interesting lateral thing to think about, [but it was] something I didn’t anticipate. It just came out of the mechanics. Duncan [Boehle, programmer] said, ‘Do you want me to disable that?’ And I said, ‘No! We’ve got to figure out how to turn that into a mechanic!’”