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27: Teamfight Tactics with Greg Borenstein

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of the Item System in Dota

The item system was in the original auto chess mod but it is still significantly more complex and allows for more expressivity compared to what valve did with dodontaloids right. this one where you can only put one item on it on a hero but you can move them around and it's so cool. We found that there's a really value in the commitment affording that on the putting an item permanently on the unit just one just like liberates you from thinking about it again. The items automatically if they can build into a combined item they automatically do. There are also combinatorial explosion between items and our items were designed to kind of fulfill similar gameplay fantasies as the MOBA games we

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