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Ludology 290 There's A Game Designer For That!

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Survivor

I have this really unique ability to simulate games in my head with perspectives from multiple players simultaneously. So I can figure out optimal strategies of a game really, really fast. Going off of that, I've got a theory on game design. I want to call it parameter based decision making. Being able to find those shortcuts allowed me to create rules to block those same shortcuts unless it was fun. If the short comes really fun, then I would, you know, imbue it into the rules.

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