Directing Exploration - How Games Guide Players WITHOUT Tutorials ~ Design Doc

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
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We talk about some of the differences between linear & open-ended game design and how game go about intuitively establishing those differences.

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