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MA 8: Anthony Giovannetti on Mastery and Learning through Games
Manage episode 270622079 series 2453589
Why play or even make games? Anthony Giovannetti (MegaCrit) joins Henry to chat building video game Slay the Spire with the community. They discuss games an a interactive medium, immersion, player incentives/tradeoffs, emergent gameplay through roguelikes (procedural generation, permadeath), player mastery/difficulty, Steam early access, user feedback, importance of testing, data-informed balancing, and player accessibility driving features via streaming, translations, and UX. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/games
Anthony (MegaCrit): https://twitter.com/megacrit
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad
55 episodes
Manage episode 270622079 series 2453589
Why play or even make games? Anthony Giovannetti (MegaCrit) joins Henry to chat building video game Slay the Spire with the community. They discuss games an a interactive medium, immersion, player incentives/tradeoffs, emergent gameplay through roguelikes (procedural generation, permadeath), player mastery/difficulty, Steam early access, user feedback, importance of testing, data-informed balancing, and player accessibility driving features via streaming, translations, and UX. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/games
Anthony (MegaCrit): https://twitter.com/megacrit
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad
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