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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #122 - Repetition

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about the role repetition takes in Magic design.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.3

We all know what that means.

0:04.2

It's time for another drive to work.

0:07.2

Okay.

0:08.4

So today, from time to time, I like to do podcasts based on old articles that I've done that I liked.

0:16.9

And I like to dig through.

0:18.2

I mean, there are some pretty famous ones that I've done.

0:20.8

But there's some ones that I mean, there are some pretty famous ones that I've done.

0:23.0

But there's some ones that I really like that are a little less,

0:29.1

they're not quite as iconic, but I thought they were good articles and interesting of a podcast.

0:33.7

So this one is based on an article I did called Once More with Feeling.

0:40.4

You might also know that I'm a Joss Whedon fan, and that is the name of the episode, my favorite episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which is the musical episode, which I'm a big fan of.

0:45.5

Ironically, in the worst season, my favorite show was in the worst season, but it was an awesome

0:49.4

show.

0:51.3

Okay, so what this article is about is about repetition.

0:56.8

And I wrote an article explaining why repetition was important.

1:00.6

So I thought, a fine topic for a podcast. I should talk about repetition in design.

1:06.6

And then I should follow up with another podcast also about repetition and design.

1:11.6

You know, thematically.

1:12.4

No, just kidding.

1:13.1

I won't do that to you.

1:14.4

Okay.

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