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How Do You Improve Turn Based Combat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktogjiX3eI4
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Turn-based combat is often slow and grindy. How can you improve it? Speed up actions, intros, and attack animations; use quick-time events so attacking and defending are interactive; streamline menu navigation; integrate turn economy (add, cancel, speed up, and slow down turns); reward players with new moves, interesting tactical choices, and story bits between battles; make interesting, unique monsters; use fights sparingly; grant small rewards like skill-points.
Emergent Complexity in Games
https://sites.psu.edu/gamedesignbynickdemarco/2014/02/13/emergent-complexity-in-games/
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Emergent gameplay is the holy grail of game design. Game designers can implement intentional emergence (e.g. Scribblenauts) and unintentional emergence (e.g. Pokemon cloning glitch), which can break your game.