A Critical Thought on the Risks of Negative Feedback Loops

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Negative Feedback Loops are the subject for today's Critical Thought. Instead of making the player feel like they're going forward, negative feedback can remove progress or lead them to failure. Because of that, you need to be careful with how your game is designed. For more on progression models, here is a post from Game-Wisdom: http://game-wisdom.com/critical/2-poor-progression-models
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