Hey everybody! A few weeks ago, I wrote about a bunch of different types of players, who all enjoy games for different reasons. There are so many enjoyable aspects about games that it is possible for two players to enjoy the exact same game for very different reasons. Today, I am going to look…
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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Ready Player One (the movie and the book). Hey everybody! A few weeks ago I watched Steven Spielberg’s latest film, Ready Player One. While I consider the film itself to be only okay, I found the visuals and the concept of the OASIS to be fascinating. After watching the…
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Hey everybody! Nearly two months ago I wrote an article about evaluating different creatures in Magic: The Gathering (which you can find here). Today, I plan to do the same thing, but with spell abilities instead. If you are interested in designing your own trading card game, or simply want to learn more about…
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Hey everybody! The last few weeks I have been writing my annual review articles, and haven’t been able to put up any new game design content. That, however, changes today. As promised, today is the third entry in my series “Game Design in Real Life”, where I take a look at how game design can…
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Pokemon is one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world right now, and is a franchise that has been a part of my life since the anime first started airing. I remember playing the early games on my Gameboy, watching the movies in the theater and trying to collect all of the toys from…
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Hey everybody! Last week, we talked about a number of different strategies that can be used to win at the game of Rock-Paper Scissors (if you missed it, you can find it here). This week, we are going to go a step further and see how these strategies can be applied to other games. It’s…
Read MoreWhen I started researching for this article, my original plan was to talk mainly about a category of games known as “Solved Games”, or games that have a mathematically proven optimal strategy. I was going to use that article to talk about what it means to have solved a game, different games that have been…
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