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05: The Design of Spelunky

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Daily Challenges

Ritual was the wrong term it's actually broader than that. I think zachte's a great case study with pocket run pool looking at this kind of like sociological lens about how people play your game. Just assuming you can pick an off- shelf solution is kind of at odds with finding fresh new ways personal rituals metagames around existing games. The lesson of the lesson of spelunky is not everyone should put in a daily challenge but that if you pay attention to how like that that's that like sociological stuff is also a design material that should be looked at maybe?

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