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The Secret Lives of Games

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Lost Cities: The Best Two Player Competitive Game Ever Made

The controller is extremely underutilized and under explored because we just fall into patterns like I don't think thumbsticks have been explored enough. Bennett again of course has another great GDC talk on designing for thumbsticks specifically in the context of super poll writers. There's still so many weird things you can do with analog thumbsticks and all sorts of buttons. Lost cities is the best two player competitive the non digital game ever made, but it's difficult to play an example round on air.

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