In the second installment of your nice hosts' discussion about cheating in games, we talk about the nature of cheating in contemporary video games: what it looks like, what factors shape it, and how worried we gamedevs should be about it. Yeah, we had so much to say about cheating that we couldn't fit it into one episode. Can we fit it into two? Also, Mark skips the punctuation, Stephen is excited, and Ellen quits a game.
Cheating, Part 2
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Ellen Burns-JohnsonGame DesignGaming
"Cheating, Part 1" was in a recent roundtable episode.
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