Andrew Cedotal - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Comboness

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Why do people play games with combos? The same reason they play any game—to revel in the anxiety of their actual lives. In this talk, we’ll take a whirlwind tour through the world’s first formal definition of combos, a brief combo-centric overview of the entirety of human history, and the reason why 3-pick-1 upgrade screens are actually a lot smarter than you think.



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