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18: Exploring Brogue with Brian Walker

The Secret Lives of Games

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How to Use the Environment to Your Advantage in a Game

You can use staves that'll let you tunnel through walls or scrolls that blow up all the space. And then you can use items that can knock creatures back to knock them into things off of things. So many of the, you know, it's very easy to keep sort of elaborating in that system like at some point I added bridges and then, well the obvious question is maybe bridges should be able to burn. Once a bridge tile burns you can have that propagate so the whole bridge collapses and leaves like chasm tiles behind it. Any creature on a chasm tile immediately falls to the next level.

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