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Game Logic, Ep1: The Omnipresent Fail State

This is an audio blog post from a 7 episode series that I ran last summer on my personal website and GiantBomb.com. In this first episode, I deal with the impact of a failstate on different types of players.

Adrian Hall, Blogger

July 2, 2011

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In which I discuss how the fail state impacts different types of players, and what the ultimate impact is on the player experience.  

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