This was a very good invaders style game and you should keep working on it, but I don't think it had anything to do with the limitation.
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The problem is, I’m not a game designer and wouldn’t be able to integrate my myth well. I’m a programmer and have no idea what good game design is. So I had to create the myth as a preface to the game, as lore. In the original game, no one talked about anything either, and I decided that would have seriously disrupted the esthetics of the game.