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43: A Window Into Narrative Systems with Tom Francis

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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How Game Maker Influences the Design of Your Games

Game Maker is the reason that I was able to get started with it. It's very much about letting you get something working as fast as possible and doesn't care whether you've written it in a really clean and nice style. In C-sharp with Unity it's doing its best to fail you at every stage by which I mean it's it wants you to be rigorous and exact and precise about everything you say because it doesn't want you to find out you wrote something you didn't mean to write. Tom: "I strongly believe that the tools you are using influence your design"

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