{"id":21599,"date":"2026-01-16T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/its-a-loving-mockery-because-its-also-who-i-am-the-making-of-gamings-most-pathetic-character\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:37:15","slug":"its-a-loving-mockery-because-its-also-who-i-am-the-making-of-gamings-most-pathetic-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/its-a-loving-mockery-because-its-also-who-i-am-the-making-of-gamings-most-pathetic-character\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a loving mockery, because it\u2019s also who I am\u2019: the making of gaming\u2019s most pathetic character"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team behind Baby Steps discuss why they made a whiny, unprepared manbaby the protagonist \u2013 and how players have grown to love Nate as he struggles up a mountain<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why he is in a onesie and has a big ass,\u201d shrugs game developer Gabe Cuzzillo. \u201cBennett just came in with that at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it would be cute,\u201d replies Bennett Foddy, who was formerly Cuzzillo\u2019s professor at New York University\u2019s Game Center and is now his collaborator. \u201cWorking on character design and animation brings you over to liking big butts. I could give you an enormous amount of evidence for this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe team behind Baby Steps discuss why they made a whiny, unprepared manbaby the protagonist \u2013 and how players have grown to love Nate as he struggles up a mountain
\n\u201cI don\u2019t know why he is in a onesie and has a big ass,\u201d shrugs game developer Gabe Cuzzillo. \u201cBennett just came in with that at some point.\u201d
\n\u201cI thought it would be cute,\u201d replies Bennett Foddy, who was formerly Cuzzillo\u2019s professor at New York University\u2019s Game Center and is now his collaborator. \u201cWorking on character design and animation brings you over to liking big butts. I could give you an enormous amount of evidence for this.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The team behind Baby Steps discuss why they made a whiny, unprepared manbaby the protagonist \u2013 and how players have grown to love Nate as he struggles up a mountain \u201cI don\u2019t know why he is in a onesie and has a big ass,\u201d shrugs game developer Gabe Cuzzillo. \u201cBennett just came in with that …<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s a loving mockery, because it\u2019s also who I am\u2019: the making of gaming\u2019s most pathetic character<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}