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39: The Tricks of the Toolkit with Mark Brown (Game Maker's Toolkit)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Power of Randomness

The one hit point enemy thing is actually incredibly powerful if you can get to a elite like boss enemy within those first four combats because then you basically beat them for free and you get a great relic. So it's actually like one of the most powerful things in the game if you use this weird strategy around it which is like exactly what's fun and great about randomness  is you feel like you've totally outsmarted the game developer when you like discover these things. Did uh did anyone else appreciate that when Zach said the word often that was like the first like the most New York sounding thing he's ever said? Yeah I didn't notice. No I'm gonna pull that

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