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To contrast with that focus, its author Roland Ludlam is something of a polymath: hacker, musician, illustrator, photographer, poet.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Ludlam has co-founded a small game design company, Studio Walljump, with the aim of producing a new puzzle-music game for WiiWare. We caught him with a dual-edged interview; come for the moldy game, and get a preview for the bargain.<\/p>\n<p><b id=\"header\">( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diygamer.com\/2010\/10\/roland-ludlam-liight-hurdles-gamemaking-interview\/\">Continue reading at DIYGamer<\/a> )<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following our interview with Orb author Joshua Turcotte, we turn our information thresher to another isolated game, the closest that Game-Maker ever got to a respectable scrolling shooter, Hurdles. The game is short on presentation and deep in ingenuity; it does what it sets out to, and then moves on. 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