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#12 Fixing BGG (Rethinking Genres)

67 min • 16 juli 2021

Today we are talking about how to think about genres from new angles by considering the core of what makes games tick. We hope you enjoy!

Cartouche TTS mod - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2545396343

0 Player game - https://youtu.be/N-BbgqOjIqk

MDA original - https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/MDA.pdf

Extra Credits has a great breakdown of aesthetics and added the "dominance" aesthetic to the original list here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepAJ-rqJKA

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