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27: Teamfight Tactics with Greg Borenstein

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Evolution of Dodo in DOTA

From from very early on we tried to take an attitude of like basically anything is up for change but also trying to understand the core reasons why things were in the game before eliminating them. To level up in these games you spend gold to buy XP and then there's XP thresholds that increase over the course of the game. In DOTA auto chess units have a cooldown that's hidden as a stat about them so once their spell cast then they keep it if they hit full mana again they won't cast until the timer has passed since the last time they cast. The way that spell casting works is so you put your units out and they when they attack and do damage they gain Mana. When they

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