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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Feb 28
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Eugene Wei

      One of the troubles with asymmetric game design like this is that you have to disallow game mechanics or strategies which are fun in single player mode which would be catastrophic in multiplayer. (A surprising amount of non-entertainment software has this problem, too.)https://twitter.com/eugenewei/status/1233320105536184320 …

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      Eugene Wei @eugenewei
      Would be amazing if the makers of the games Plague Inc. and Pandemic secretly connected their games on the back end so players of each were secretly playing against each other. pic.twitter.com/1vvLZs4u9I
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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Feb 28
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      There are related insights, like "Why don't we make the enemies smarter?" The customer doesn't want to be challenged. The customer wants to feel challenged prior to winning.

      2:19 AM - 28 Feb 2020
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        1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Feb 28
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          (One of the great, great lines about this was lampooned in World of Warcraft by the developers, in the speaking voice of a boss character: "Kill the one in the dress!" *Of course* if the NPCs were genre savvy they'd kill the healer first, but their job *is to lose.*)

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        1. 𝖗𝖔𝖇𝖎𝖓  🐎‏ @robincdesign Feb 28
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          𝖗𝖔𝖇𝖎𝖓  🐎 Retweeted Candace Thomas

          Reminds me of this tweethttps://twitter.com/candacerthomas/status/953751359047651328?s=21 …

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          Candace Thomas @candacerthomas
          I'm gonna let you kids in on a secret: I don't design bosses to win fights against the player. I design them to lose *very convincingly.* It's like blackjack. I lose if I go way too far under, but I also lose if I go over.
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        2. Evan Broder‏ @ebroder Feb 28
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          There's a competitive variant of Pandemic called Pandemic Survival where teams all play the same decks, intentionally stacked to be evil. The winner is whoever lasts the longest. Unsurprisingly, the diseases usually wipes the floor with everyone

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        3. James Harvey‏ @jmhredsox Feb 28
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          Replying to @ebroder @patio11

          I feel like knowing in advance that the deck is stacked to be evil makes pandemic strategy much more straightforward and less interesting.

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        1. Ꮤ 1 Z̶ ʎ Я D 🅨‏ @L422Y Feb 28
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          in a lot of mmo games, the mobs difficulty adjusts with the average level of players

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