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15: GDC Special - Derek Yu and Slay the Spire

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Different Types of Roguelikes

There are definitely different pools in our game. You can either always be at, like, really, really high health and have a lot of potions that are really strong against bosses. Or you can try to go for the perfect deck and be like, if I have these five cards, I will win no matter what. And so there's definitely different ways to play. And there's different personalities for people, too. So what we would consider bad ideas when people play and when we watch them, they would consider great ideas. Sometimes it works out and, like, we're shocked, too. We make the achievements that allude a different way of playing the game. It's like,

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