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Music games are all the rage these days!

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Paul Sottosanti, game design veteran and certified cool guy joins Regal and Swimfan to talk about the role that randomness, variance, and luck affect games, mostly from a designer's perspective, in both general and case-specific terms.

0:00:00 Who is Paul Sottosanti?

0:29:18 Basic concepts and a tangent about the popularity of games

0:43:00 Drawing cards

1:20:00 Build complexity

1:42:27 Play-by-mail games

2:22:29 Horizontal progression and strategic diversity

2:39:45 Damage range

2:54:14 Rapidfire topics

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1337 G@m3rz UNITE!!

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Yip schools us on TCGs, CCGs, DCGs, and all other card-based games.

0:00:00 Introductions, who the heck is Andrew Yip, and the LoR experience

0:17:33 History with card games

0:49:01 Hanging out in settings and MMOs

1:05:51 Mana, variance, and all its implications

1:41:31 Different players, different skill expression

1:53:44 Back to mana (color pie, mana flood)

2:05:32 Making losing fun and making the game approachable

2:24:51 Can more interesting games be made if we didn't try to make more money?

2:37:56 Single player TCGs

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Do not trust Swimfan to inspect your door, physical or digital.

0:00:00 Intro and patch notes: nets

0:06:15 The joy of thievery

0:12:16 Why are steal games less popular and sometimes more frustrating than combat games?

0:39:39 How do the NPCs or the game itself handle ethics?

0:50:30 Singleplayer vs multiplayer

1:18:22 Society in the apocalypse

1:34:20 Ethics (in singleplayer games)

2:01:40 What makes a good thieving game?

Outro music by Nathan Miller: https://youtu.be/_tPeNHBy5GQ

babby's second video. but babby's, like, 18th audio!

Even your parents want to play! 🙄

0:00:00 Intro and patch notes: death note

0:16:00 The universal nature of simple games

0:35:45 Solitaire and games as a way to fill time

0:59:24 Tetris, platforms, and popularity

1:07:00 Randomess & replayability

1:14:05 Wordle

1:30:00 Pokemon GO

1:54:04 What can we learn?

Outro music by beat_shobon: https://soundcloud.com/beat_shobon/mario-paint-but-you-can-dance-to-it

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An episode about superpowers in which we learn that we should never under any circumstances tell Swimfan any of our secrets.

0:00:00 Intro and patch notes: positive religious relationships and experiences

0:10:10 The rules

0:17:30 Saving and loading as a superpower

0:59:10 What it's like to be older than one human lifetime

1:11:49 What would we do?

1:36:20 Superpower #2: mind reading

2:01:00 Superpower #3: simulate until end of season

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Whether 'tis nobler to suffer or to just load and try again.

0:00:00 Intro

0:12:20 Saving basics

0:34:24 Checkpoint systems

0:55:45 Upsides and downsides

1:28:30 What happens if we switch the paradigms?

1:51:04 Is Skyrim the best game of all time?

Outro music by otherlink

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Swimfan confesses his sordid past and shares the secrets to retiring early as a billionaire.

0:14:52 Swimfan's early work, from getting in to Modern Warfare

20:37:55 Life after Call of Duty

1:02:40 Where did it all end up?

1:18:30 Where did it all come from?

1:50:30 Was it what you expected?

2:18:50 How do I become Swimfan?

2:45:00 Advice for advancing in your career

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