Ask Ryan

Yeah, I have a lot of questions. Number one: How dare you?

Just kidding, I’ve just always wanted to use that line.

  1. I love Link’s Awakening for the Game Boy, and your podcast about the game is really good. How did you get the idea to frame it the way you did? I know you go through it a little in the podcast, but I’d be interested to know how you chose the order to make the episodes in, for example, since you jump all around the place (literally) chronologically. What story did you want to tell? Was it more or less random? Favorite tiles first?
  2. I know you didn’t adapt Mud Warriors to Game Boy yourself, but how involved were you and what can you say about the process?
  3. Mud Warriors for Game Boy actually seems kind of like a Bitsy game to me, and we have debated whether Bitsy is IF on this forum recently. Do you know of Bitsy, and what’s your take on that controversial topic?
  4. I really liked your IF version of The Little Match Girl, as well as your blog posts about its development. My question: Did you know that the author, H. C. Andersen, also wrote The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen, both of which inspired famous Disney movies (the latter being Frozen)? It’s a rhetorical question; of course you know. H. C. was a prolific guy, kind of like you.

Maybe I’ll think of more questions later.