The Secret to Replayable Video Games: Defining Variance (Critical Thought)

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For this critical thought, I talked about how to make replayable games and a way of measuring that replayability with variance. One error, when I say "legitimate" when describing runs, I should have said viable from the post linked in the video and here: http://game-wisdom.com/critical/importance-variance-video-game-replayability
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