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14: Diversifying Play with Greg Johnson (ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Effect of Hoarding on the Player's Brain

tojama neural you ever had that problem where it's sort of like a second order problem with hoarders and then you also have like optimizers and optimizers brains go totally nuts when they start hitting potions. One of the things we did was we had our characters speak um we have they have thought bubbles and as you play a lot of the conditions of whatever's going on in the game trigger them. They seem like they know what's going on but if they find that the game is recoverable than it's much easier for them to start taking risks. ramping the game up very slowly uh is important and letting them have a space to really start experimenting before you start throwing stuff at

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