“We’ve been having fun,” Gibson said. “This whole thing is just a vehicle for our creativity anyway. It’s nice to make fun things.”

Staying small also meant eschewing the production practices commonplace at many game-development studios. “What is Jira?” Gibson said when I asked if they used the task-management application. “Is it a software?” Pellen said, adding that they’d briefly used Trello before their account was deactivated because they didn’t use it enough.

The entire interview has such immense energy. Dudes rock.

This is probably the best press they could do. No drama, no major obstacles, it just took several extra years because they couldn't stop having fun making it. That's great publicity. I was planning to buy it before, but this has solidified my decision, because I want to have fun too.

‘This is a very enjoyable space to be in. Let’s perpetuate this with some new ideas.’

This is so huge

the real reason was they enjoyed seeing how insane r/silksong would get

Hollow Knight series gets even better!