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> While I agree with the main premise of the article, that game designers need to take a critical, uninfluenced look at the genres they design games for, it feels like the author hasn't attempted to play a game in the last 10 years.

The article was written in 2005 so that seems like a correct assessment.

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Oh, hey, look at that. Thanks for uncovering that. And the games I talked about came out after 2006, so maybe they were inspired by the article :)

Another game, though I haven't looked at it in a while, with a very innovative idea is Achron. Time travelling with all the potential hazards and benefits it implies. Lost a battle? Go back and reposition your units. Cost increased to go back further in time so you couldn't infinitely regress. I fell out of playing video games a couple years ago though so I'm not sure how it turned out. I should download it again and check it out.

It would be great if some mod added "(2005)" to title. I also didn't realize that fact until I read your comment.

The third paragraph states that it was written in 2005.

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