DANCE OFF
Nov 11, 2021
2 minutes
Jeremy Peel
Dinga Bakaba is the game director of Deathloop, Arkane’s brilliant, breakthrough FPS. He’s a veteran of the Dishonoredseries, going back 11 years. But most importantly for our purposes, he’s a martial arts teacher on the side. Specifically, Bakaba teaches capoeira.
“People sometimes wonder, is it a dance, is it a fight,” he says. “But we say, ‘a game of capoeira,’ and the act is playing.” The boundaries of Eddy Gordo, the human rotor whose unpredictable leg spins end with a foot to the face.
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