BioShock Infinite's Bread Boy Proves Game Development is a Fathomless Mystery

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BioShock Infinite’s Bread Boy proves game development is a deep mystery.

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The second part of it’s DLC takes place in Paris.

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They love big long sticks of bread, it has even been cosplayed.

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He became a Bread Boy for a logical game development reason.

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Many aspects of design are actually the result of extremely unintuitive tricks.

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She explained the logic behind why the boy is dancing with bread, in a thread on Twitter.

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They felt that the Paris section was too underpopulated during the development of the Burial at Sea DLC.

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They decided that having a human figure running around would bring Paris to life.

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They had to draw this from the base game, because they lack resources to create more.

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They initially decided to have two dancing kids moving around.

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After discovering that it was going to be impossible to have two children dancing in that location, then they changed track.

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