Music games are all the rage these days! Also, I'm selling a bundle of 2 Rock Band drumkits (markedly used) and a crate of unopened DJ Hero turntables for $9.99 USD. Please like and comment if you're interested. Outro music by I Am Jemboy

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Paul Sottosanti, game design veteran and certified cool guy joins Regal and Swimfan to talk about the role that randomness, variance, and luck affect games, mostly from a designer's perspective, in both general and case-specific terms.

0:00:00 Who is Paul Sottosanti?

0:29:18 Basic concepts and a tangent about the popularity of games

0:43:00 Drawing cards

1:20:00 Build complexity

1:42:27 Play-by-mail games

2:22:29 Horizontal progression and strategic diversity

2:39:45 Damage range

2:54:14 Rapidfire topics

Outro music by Cyranek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46LF80G6nB4

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1337 G@m3rz UNITE!! We broadly discuss the difference between people who consider themselves "gamers" and people who simply play games, the effect this has on the industry discourse, and the icky associations the label carries. 0:00:00 Intro and patch notes 0:17:19 The influence of the online discourse about games 0:40:45 Identity and gamerism 1:18:55 The use of games 1:47:25 Finding your voice 2:02:10 The use of gamers Outro music by DatManOvaDer: https://soundcloud.com/datmanovader/throwback-funk

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Yip schools us on TCGs, CCGs, DCGs, and all other card-based games.

0:00:00 Introductions, who the heck is Andrew Yip, and the LoR experience

0:17:33 History with card games

0:49:01 Hanging out in settings and MMOs

1:05:51 Mana, variance, and all its implications

1:41:31 Different players, different skill expression

1:53:44 Back to mana (color pie, mana flood)

2:05:32 Making losing fun and making the game approachable

2:24:51 Can more interesting games be made if we didn't try to make more money?

2:37:56 Single player TCGs

Outro music by BotanicSage: https://soundcloud.com/botanicsage/16bit-magic-sped-up

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Do not trust Swimfan to inspect your door, physical or digital.

0:00:00 Intro and patch notes: nets

0:06:15 The joy of thievery

0:12:16 Why are steal games less popular and sometimes more frustrating than combat games?

0:39:39 How do the NPCs or the game itself handle ethics?

0:50:30 Singleplayer vs multiplayer

1:18:22 Society in the apocalypse

1:34:20 Ethics (in singleplayer games)

2:01:40 What makes a good thieving game?

Outro music by Nathan Miller: https://youtu.be/_tPeNHBy5GQ YouTube.com/@OpenBetas

babby's second video. but babby's, like, 18th audio!

0:00:00 What is Against the Storm?

0:16:51 What sets ATS apart and its core mechanics

0:27:19 Some ideas for high level changes

0:54:14 Endless mode

Against the Storm on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1336490/Against_the_Storm/

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You can attempt to contact me at regal@openbetas.com. I will probably check it at least once in my lifetime. Probably.

Even your parents want to play! 🙄

0:00:00 Intro and patch notes: death note

0:16:00 The universal nature of simple games

0:35:45 Solitaire and games as a way to fill time

0:59:24 Tetris, platforms, and popularity

1:07:00 Randomess & replayability

1:14:05 Wordle

1:30:00 Pokemon GO

1:54:04 What can we learn?

Outro music by beat_shobon: https://soundcloud.com/beat_shobon/mario-paint-but-you-can-dance-to-it

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An episode about superpowers in which we learn that we should never under any circumstances tell Swimfan any of our secrets.

0:00:00 Intro and patch notes: positive religious relationships and experiences

0:10:10 The rules

0:17:30 Saving and loading as a superpower

0:59:10 What it's like to be older than one human lifetime

1:11:49 What would we do?

1:36:20 Superpower #2: mind reading

2:01:00 Superpower #3: simulate until end of season

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