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Thanks to all the folks who came to see my talk for new and aspiring developers at #GDC2025! If you missed it or weren't able to attend but still want to find out about the simple gameplay framework I discussed, it's now available on the GDC Vault.

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Game Career Seminar: STR, DEX and INT: A Genre-Spanning Way to Think About Gameplay

Join Joe Shely as he presents a simple framework for classifying games based on the way players interact with them. This framework uses the well-known RPG shorthand for character attributes Strength,...

I'm excited to share that I'll be speaking at @Official_GDC next week as part of the Game Career Seminar for new and aspiring developers! Join me in exploring a simple framework for thinking about gameplay and your audience #GDC2025 schedule.gdconf.com/session/game-c…

With the launch of #DiabloIV Season 4 we've made exciting gameplay updates, added the Pit, evolved Helltide, and reworked many aspects of loot in the game, including fixing many conditional item affixes (sometimes referred to as "Damage on Tuesdays").

I love that many of our players define ARPG to mean exclusively "games in the style of Diablo" (sometimes also referred to as hack 'n slash or dungeon crawlers). 1/2

In the #DiabloIV Season 4 update, not only is Andariel being added to the boss ladder for another way to hunt Uber Uniques, all other ladder bosses like Lord Zir and Beast in Ice will gain a small chance to drop Uber Unique items.

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