Luck Be a Landlord

And I think I'm realizing I like kind of just like dumb and stupid aesthetics.

This game, luck be a landlord, just like don't take themselves too seriously, doesn't get in the way of the gameplay.

Yeah, totally.

It's clearly somebody who is like, I am not an artist and I'm not pretending to be an artist and I'm just going to throw assets together and lean.

Yeah, it definitely is.

I mean, and it came out kind of post the Bellatro craze.

And it's funny because we both had talked about before recording that it really reminded us of Luck Be a Landlord, which Bellatro was inspired by.

I would say it's more of a Luck Be a Landlord like than a Bellatro like.

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Dan DiIorio is the solo game developer behind Luck Be a Landlord, Maze Mice, and What's the Password? Dan is a generous soul who loves games and sharing in the collective play experiences they have the unique capability of creating.

It's such an honor to have them on the show today.

Well, Dan, thank you so much for being here.

Uh, but I've gone back and watched it, and I can see how it's, it's been foundational to a lot of developers just a bit older than me.

Um, so if you don't mind, I would, I would be fascinated for this interview to take, like, a somewhat kinda chronological look at your commercial history in games.

Um, your, your first Steam release, uh, as a solo dev, as you referenced, was in January of 2023, which was Luck Be a Landlord, and it was, you know, a smash hit.

Over 10,000 Steam reviews, and folks became pretty obsessed with it.