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Okay, so today's podcast is based on something I wrote on my blog. And I just wanted to go in more detail.

It's a really interesting topic. So something I talked about, an R&D philosophy is what we call inclusion over exclusion.

And so the point of today's podcast is to explain what that means and just go in greater depth of understanding sort of the philosophy behind it from a game design standpoint.

Okay.

So my first question is, what do demons and murfolk and walls all have in common?

And the answer is they were all something part of magic.

In fact, I believe all of them were in alpha.

And all of them for a period of time, it got removed from the game.

So demons in early magic, there was a worry that it was upsetting, you know, there's a certain audience that's upset that demons were in the game and we were...

Wizard was sort of anticipating something.

So there's a period of time we remove demons from the game, or at least we removed the word demon from the game.

I guess we just called them something else.

We called them beasts or horse or something.

But we didn't refer to them as demons specifically.

And Murfolk, there's a period of time where the creative team,

I think it was led by Brady Dominoff at the time,

just felt that like water-based fights are weird

when we're summoning things to have a land-based conflict

and felt like, you know, murfolk and other water-based things

were just kind of in a weird state.

And it's weird to sort of pluck this murfoke from the sea

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