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113: On top of the Fires of Hell w/ Daniel Benmergui (Storyteller)

The Secret Lives of Games

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The Problem With Game Design

I feel like what you just described is a fairly extreme version of the entirety of the problem with game design and why game design is like total nightmare. The best job you can possibly do is give people a totally new experience that they don't even really realize is a new experience because it's so comfortable to them. Yeah, this is something we talk about a lot in our real life puzzle design stuff as well so I work on a ski prunes and that in person. You can we can see a lot of truck again what was you're just explaining why the sandbox mode doesn't exist. I mean if I could make a satisfying sandbox mode I would make you more game.

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