Kelly Mears

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Play & Games

Games as designed experience, and the culture around them.

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Where it reaches

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The hubs

Game Feel

The perceptual layer between input and simulation, and the tuning that makes a control scheme read as responsive.

Play & Games28 connections

Roguelike

A genre defined by procedurally generated runs and permanent death, and the design pressures those create.

Play & Games28 connections

Environmental Storytelling

Narrative carried by placed objects and world state rather than dialogue, completed by the audience's inference.

Play & Games27 connections

Game AI

Computer opponents built to be interesting to play against rather than optimal.

Play & Games26 connections

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