What Makes a Good Cast of Game Villains?
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Writing one villain is hard. But SEVEN villains? That’s like… twice as hard. So why go through the effort of creating a whole cast of villains for a game? Well, they can unlock group dynamics that you won’t get any other way. You just get a level of complexity that you can’t get from Johnny SingleBad. Let’s talk about how to build a bad team.
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