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37: Designing Around Language with Zach Gage

The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Vocabulary Memorization

The scoring in the game is structurally very similar to Scrabble, you know, each letter has a has a value that's related to the like rarity of the letter. The original I built it in two weeks so I kind of just made a lot of decisions and lived with them. And then showing the score, the value of all the letters was one that I ended up just deciding because fundamentally there was just nowhere to put it. But people who played really hardcore started to understand how all of that stuff work and worked and figured out the scoring. Some of them even figured out that there were these huge bugs in the scoring,. where certain letters would be counted more than one time.

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