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Adults Can’t Count Either: Design Tricks We Used at PBS That Apply to All Games

• Speaker: Dennis Ramirez & Charlie Mackin, Videogame Workshop

We aren’t telling you to treat your players like children, but we ARE saying everyone has a hard time counting past 3, no matter how old they are. Let's talk about the design tricks we used while making PBS Kids games that will make your games faster to learn and easier to play.

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