![]() “I don’t know how exactly to describe it, I’ve always had an interest in electronics and stuff, so one day I just said to myself, ‘Hey, what would happen if I put a bunch of wires in a banana?’ and here I am! I don’t have an exciting origin story or anything, I think it was just my own curiosity.” “I still do a bunch of games development on the side, and for my main job too, but this stuff really came out of the blue,” Hamilton explains. Like a number of creators at major studios, Hamilton eventually found himself transitioning into indie development, finding a solid space to chase his own passions and pursue more outlandish experiments in his spare time. “That’s also when I found out bananas leak for the first time because you don’t realise how hard you press buttons until you don’t press them, and bananas are soft so as you keep pressing it eventually just becomes all squishy.”īefore he was using fruit to conquer the realm of Lothric, Hamilton studied games programming at university before landing a gig with Gearbox Software as a certification lead. “Dark Souls is totally playable by banana, but would I recommend it? No, because bananas leak!” Hamilton jokes. Related: Molly Ostertag On The Darkest Night And Carving A More Intimate Space For Queer Stories Whether he’s using a real sword to kill enemies in Final Fantasy 7 Remake or poking a piece of squishy fruit to conquer Dark Souls 3, Hamilton has concocted some marvellous inventions that boggle the mind, so I recently sat down with him to talk about where this passion started, and if fellow enthusiasts can come along for the ride. ![]() “When Dark Souls 3 came out, someone told me they wanted to see a banana controller, and I was like, ‘Wait, I have the means to do that, but what does that actually mean?’ - so I put the two together,” Louis ‘ SuperLouis 64’ Hamilton, a modder who has made a name for himself across the internet by creating all manner of unexpected ways to play some of our favourite games, tells me. ![]()
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