
39: The Tricks of the Toolkit with Mark Brown (Game Maker's Toolkit)
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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How to Stop Players From Re-Rolling the Game
I did find myself sometimes like just re-rolling the game until I got something that would actually work with a good deck. But then there was this idea of how can you build uh fail safes into the game where the player isn't gonna do that and they're gonna just sort of work with what they're given so if they get given a bad hand how are you gonna stop them from just going you know what I'll just start again? Some of the best experiences can come from you start with something crappy and you think that you're just never going to be able to win with it um and then you pull through and win, he says.
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