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07: Death in Roguelikes with Kawa

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Roguelike Culture of Normalized Death

I like the idea of what you can do once you've got those long enough runs or even once the mechanics themselves are intricate enough that you can watch the sort of room gold room machine reaction. I mean right there I'm not saying every single death is going to you know create sonnets and fan fiction like I don't think that's ever possible for a game with any level of like real you know difficulty and death but I I like the idea that of what you're able to do in roguelike games.

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