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Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Path Choice in Roguelikes

Andy: To avoid min-maxers, they're just going to find like the optimal path. And then that becomes the canonical version. I think there's a lot of precedent for doing it in ways that are, you know, like say the spire and stuff like that. It's all very like, where do I go? Oh, let me think about like what, what I could have in these areas and where I'm at now and what is optimal. Zach: Well, I mean, because Zach just brought off, I know this is not the slave spire of podcast, but like it's just like if it's a little bit more random in what can happen in

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