The Core Tenets of Game Design

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2. Let them beat the game without buying anything but give them the option to speed up time or skip things if they spend a lil money

That was definitely what I was thinking while playing The Blood Forge in Soul Reaver or the Ocean Hotel in vampire the masquerade or while exploring the wonderful worlds of Psychonauts. If only I could buy cheats it would have been so much better.

I was referring to social games

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