In hours, I have played more of The Binding of Isaac than any other game in my Steam library. Edmund McMillen said he wasn't expecting it to be a hit, and has since proceeded to be proven thoroughly wrong.

It is kind of a big deal among a certain crowd: as I'm writing this, the second season of the Binding of Isaac Racing League, hosted and commented by Crumps, is in full swing - even though the game was certainly not designed for that!

It's too easy! Where's the documentation for the API? I found an injection vulnerability! Global functions from 'window' leak! I tried to attack your server then realized nginx was ignoring me!

Keep struggling, my pretties. The game is not meant for you, but you are good guinea pigs nonetheless. Just because the game involved programming, you found yourself so, so terribly wrong about one thing: that you understood at all what was happening.

Damian Sommer did a casual AMA on Reddit recently, about his upcoming game, The Yawhg. I got to ask him a few questions. Here's what he had to say.

"I was just kind of tired of them. There's still one more platformer I really want to finish, (The Clown Who Wanted Everything), but besides that, I'm just extremely bored of them now."

"Some people don't understand the iterative nature of art, design and game design."

"Instead, they try to reach the final version on the first try and get frustrated when it's not as good as they thought."

"Aim for the best you can, but know that you will have to iterate, work on it again. Know that it'll get better on the next step!"

"The best way to learn is to just go out and make stuff, collaborate with people who are better than you at different things, and experiment."

"That's what I've found, at least. Just be around people who are awesome and learn off them. Trade ideas around and try stuff."

"Everything I do, I've learned from friends, collaborators, people I look up to, and personal experiments. Just going out and trying stuff."