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New Approaches to F2P Game Design – GDC ’15

FamousAspect Mar 2, 15 0 9 sec read

This post contains links to the templates I will be talking about during the lecture today:

I hope you enjoy the talk!

FamousAspect

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Executive Producer on an unannounced crypto game for N3TWORK. Former EP of Tetris, former Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes. Co-Host of Deconstructor of Fun's Tokenomics podcast. Frequent contributor to Deconstructor of Fun, GameDeveloper.com, and Game Developer's Conference. Loves Ratchet & Clank, Smash TV and Persona 4: Golden. Still plays PS Vita.

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