Sundays are for staring into the empty link cupboard and rooting around at the back until, among the sauces and spilled flour, you find the week’s best edible games reporting.
- Nathan “Edge Magazine” Brown linked this on Twitter this week: Thinking About Design – Options as the Greatest Resource. It’s sort of about Magic: The Gathering, sort of about fighting games, sort of about all game design. “Though we have come a long way from the early days of Street Fighter II, many developers still don’t seem to fully understand this concept of options being the most valuable resource, and it’s possible that they never will. MTG still prints unbalanced cards and thus fighting game developers will most likely continue to make unbalanced characters.”
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