Ontological Anatomy of a Video Game
Gaming Under
the Influence
[podcast]E.126
Do Games Need Combat?
Join Mike & Alex for a discussion of combat in video games: does it have to be in everything? Why are there so few games whose core loop consists of anything else? What is the perfect synthesis between depicted content and varied activity in a video game?
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