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Minecraft: Using Learning to Make Players Fall in Love

Brand Game Development

In it, you romp around an 8-bit world, fighting monsters and building anything your heart desires. The game was gradually refined over a series of pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release updates. It’s the perfect sandbox, the perfect little “microcosm of life” , which is what I think games ultimately are.

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Garrisons 2.0

Grid Sage Games

Garrisons were originally added to Cogmind in the months after the first Alpha release in 2015 (see an overview here ) as an optional location for players to visit, adding a unique extra dimension to the world to answer the question “what if I infiltrate these things where many enemy squads come from?”

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