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Mar 2024
50m 13s

How do you make an addictive video game?

PJ Vogt
About this episode
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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