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11: Taking Back Roguelikes with Raigan Burns

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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Minecraft: The Modern Lego of Story Generation

Reagan: Minecraft is like the modern lego in terms of being something for people who want to be creative but i think the real selling point of minecraft is that it gives you a story that's unique. It uses all of the procedural generation stuff of roguelikes to create something that give you a story and it builds itself in a way where that story is accessible, he says. "If you don't understand how all of those pieces fit together that story is not going to exist for you" - Reagan.

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