A Game That Makes Games: How an Indie Studio Crafted the Genre-Blending 'Supermash'

During a recent live-stream showcase of independent video games, Nintendo unveiled a number of upcoming titles including Digital Continue's 'Supermash,' a 'game that makes games'

During a recent live-stream showcase of independent video games, Nintendo unveiled a number of upcoming titles that ran the gamut from role-playing adventures to puzzlers to platformers. One newcomer that stuck out was developer Digital Continue's, a "game that makes games" by randomly generating levels based on the player's choice to meld two different genres together.

"The second phase," he continues, "we combined some other things together and created a system that more accurately resembled combining genres instead of just gameplay types. The game didn’t come together until about 70-75 percent of the way into development.", players pick two genres — say, platformer and RPG — and the game's system "mashes" them together to produce a playable game.

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