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Month: April 2016

How I Became a Writer

April 22, 2016

One morning in my Junior year of high school, I woke up with an idea.  I was going to write a story, an epic about a prince who sacrifices himself to redeem his kingdom, a tale of camaraderie and suffering, of triumph begat by a young man’s willingness to stand above his past sins and … More How I Became a Writer

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Challenging versus Punishing in video games

April 9, 2016

A friend of mine and I have had a discussion about the nature of difficulty in gameplay—what changes to a basic design make it harder to reach a state of victory, ideally increasing the sense of reward when the player reaches that state.  I would suggest, and will talk at length here, about how games … More Challenging versus Punishing in video games

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