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10 Elements of Good Game Design

Brand Game Development

In Tasty Humans , points are earned by monsters for eating people and arranging their body part tiles in certain ways in the monster’s stomach. There are limits to exactly how you can place tiles, and you don’t always get what you want. one place I’ve encouraged surprise is the facedown card mechanic.

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. L loss or often worse, since cops can exploit the same chain reaction mechanic as the player.

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