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What Web3 Games Should Learn from Designing Fun Game Markets

Deconstructor of Fun

If you replaced Gamestop with a staid company like Sherwin-Williams Paint, retail traders would show far less interest. To a diehard sports fan or competitive gamer, winning the fantasy sports league provides emotional value on top of the financial value of any prize money. Market games can similarly shake up the rules.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. In the later game, raid mechanisms become quite rich. This genre is getting marginalized in the West.

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We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

Radiator Blog

So I shifted direction to something more like Claude Shannon's Theseus (1950), a mechanical mouse that "learned" how to navigate a maze by flipping magnetic switches beneath the floor. I also appreciate Ian Cheng's Emissaries series , but dislike its mystification of AI as fantasy novel lore. So should police exist in this garden?