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42: The Secrets of Simplicity with Martin Jonasson (holedown)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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How to Play Tetramanos: The Art of Randomization

The shapes of the blocks and how they're laid out is a huge part of what's fun about the game. The way it generates the play field is that it starts in a corner let's say the lower left corner on on a grid. And I just randomly pick one of those and like okay this is my next cell take that off the list of open cells. Now this new cell has another two neighbors. Like, let's say we pick the one to the right so up and right is again free I pick another one and then another one again. And if I pick them adjacent every time from one of the ones I've picked before it's always going to make it to terminal shape

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