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Mar 2024
50m 13s

How do you make an addictive video game?

PJ Vogt
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This episode will change how you look at games. We talk to Ben Brode, the designer behind Hearthstone and Marvel Snap, about how a creative person learns to make the things they love, and about the secret ideas hiding in games as simple as rock-papers-scissors.If you'd like to support the show, head to our newsletter. 
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