It's a combination of particles and sprites and other various cool-i-o, neat-o effects that our artist and code-types came up with 

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Honestly I'm not sure how they did those explosions 

.  I went, 'Hey, I need a sand mortar hit for the beach', and they gave me that.  Hence I was happy and didn't ask a lot of questions for fear of being taken into a dark room where I couldn't see anything and all I could hear was a sheep somewhere.  No......wait a minute.....that was when I went over to Brad's appartment last weekend, nevermind 

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Latuh fuh U,
Benson
benson@2015.com
"We don't introduce or cause bugs in the game, we merely find and bring to light the inadequacies within the code."
-regarding level designers