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37: Designing Around Language with Zach Gage

The Secret Lives of Games

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The Parallels to Randomness in Roguelikes

In spell tower plus there are bonus tiles that will double the value of your word if you use them they're the yellow ones. So these tiles are a little bit more complicated how we dole them out so we give you roughly one every four rows. The distribution is the same every time 118 I don't even know if it is exactly 118 I have to check it actually changes depending on the mode. There are 113 tiles in tower mode and so there are only 113 tiles in the bag for three different modes. It's interesting to playing it over a longer period of time because you start noticing things like vowels clumping together which is something that wouldn't happen in normal Scrabble.

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