
10: Keyforge with Richard Garfield
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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The Importance of Complexity in Video Games
It's hard to actually operate out the rules if something like requires two cards to play and then it enters and has a playability. Every creature is basically an XX, right? It's like a five power five toughness. He never varies that. So that was one of the examples where he said, oh, because I took that out of there and people don't have to worry about that, I can add some more complexity in different places. And so for example, you might have like an orc in a video game and that could be a level one orc, alevel two orc, a level 10 orc, a levels 20 orc. That adds a ton of like variance and granularity
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