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The three most important qualities in an RPG

Keith Burgun

AAA games are first and foremost products and their “smooth functionality” is prized above all else. I tend to think that “genres” in videogames are believed in, or thought to be real in a way that is massively over-stated. Actual surprises are costly, they create bugs and instability, they create imbalances.

Fantasy 52
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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

unlike Outer Wilds, golden loop here is heavily hard-gated by quest progression, not a "true" information game, compromise with AAA market? no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power). sorry if your game happens to crash, or you get a dreaded UI freeze. sorry fix: let players soft-bank / soft-checkpoint some of their progress?