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#260: The Game Must Flow

So Very Wrong About Games

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The Antithesis of Okay

The antithesis of okay. Don't go after personal goals. And you know how I play. It's like a moral victory or at least I did this in the game. Like I did the silly thing. You know, I got, you know, the 400 resources of this one thing. That can seriously lead to game flow problems because you're always teaching out these weird accounting actions that require lots of fiddly counting and all that other nonsense. For example, there's my previous contention that if you play arbitrarily or so contrary to the expectations of other players, you might then just be a chaos monkey in the context of the game. And I'm pro-given, but not

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