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It increasingly feels like securing a publisher as an indie game dev isn't as much of a "solution" as it used to be. Seems like I'm constantly hearing about devs fighting with publishers or really poor performance on launch. Am I crazy? Is this just some kind of insane bias I've stumbled into because of who I know / the games I pay attention to? Anyone have any like... good stories to share about their publisher?

#395. In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, Kanto Elite Four member Lorelei has a house on Four Island in the Sevii Islands.

Inside the house contains 6 Pokémon Dolls, but every time the Player defeats the Elite Four and enters the Hall of Fame 25 times, an extra Pokémon Doll will appear in the house. This continues until the Player has entered the Hall of Fame 200 times and a total of 14 Pokémon Dolls reside in Lorelei’s house. (X)

Lorelei’s house with all 14 Poké Dolls

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Castle seen from forest by Mark Ferrari.

“Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”

— Unknown

Yesterday a friend of mine asked if card games are my favorite type of game.

I almost said yes, but then I thought:

Cards aren't really a genre of game. Instesd, they're a game component that opens up a multitude of different ways to structure a game. 7 Wonders, Pokemon TCG, and Poker all use cards in radically different games. You can't just label all of them in the same category based on their shared medium; that'd be like saying you like all books or all video games with health bars.

But I said yes anyway, because I do in fact love all 3 of the aforementioned games AND I just really like the fact that cards are self-contained "rule boxes". Very modular. Very demure.

Cards are an S tier game component. Perhaps even the best game component. Is there any game component, physical or otherwise, that even comes close to the versatility and usefulness of cards?

And don't say dice, they're just number generators. Cards can do that too. No, I don't care if they're pretty math rocks, cards are still better. Stay mad.

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