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Be Your Own Playtester with Random Number Generation

• Speaker: Terry DuBois

Game developers love to playtest their own games, but thinky games pose a challenge to this process. How can one playtest their own puzzle when they already know exactly how to solve it? This talk will go over how random number generation can benefit puzzle designers and help developers see their game from a fresh point of view.

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