Alpha, Beta, Gamer: Dev Mode

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Live performance mixes playable web games, standup, and a rapid build of a platformer made from audience artwork; set pieces include a cooperative Flappy Bird warmup with recorded high scores (best Edinburgh run 9, later team run hitting 121), an inverted clapping challenge with a historical max score of three, remakes of Pong/Space Invaders/Tetris and Sims anecdotes, then a live cheer-to-jump Mario homage assembled in minutes, debugged onstage (jump gravity vs lateral velocity) and played to reclaim the stolen hats.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:01Flappy Bird
3. 11:23Pong
4. 14:26Tomb Raider
5. 18:00Tetris
6. 22:11The Sims
7. 29:33Assassin's Creed Unity

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