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Curated by: Josh Strife Hayes (714 videos)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/joshstrifehayes Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/joshstrifehayes Discord: https://discord.gg/GM2sCUX Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/joshstrifehayes Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/joshstrifehayes ##### Episode 2 of the new series 'Dev Log', talking to game developers about game development! I sat down with Mod Kieren and Mod Elena from the Old School Runescape team and asked some difficult design questions, about nostalgia, how you design for a broad level range, when emergent gameplay becomes player created extortion and how you bring raiding to a game which never had it. Thank you to the Patreon supporters and Twitch subs who keep the channel alive. ##### 00:00:18 – intro 00:02:20 – Was OSRS ever meant to succeed? 00:05:06 – Why does the Nightmare zone have a cow? 00:06:06 – how does OSRS design around Runescape 3? 00:12:54 – how do you bring raiding to OSRS? 00:17:07 – was the 'evolution of combat' a good idea? 00:21:10 – Removing the wilderness in 2007, was it the right call? 00:25:05 – Revenant caves and 'emergent gameplay vs extortion' 00:28:50 – how do you design content to be played and not avoided 00:34:45 – Microtransactions, how will OSRS avoid them? 00:41:18 – Large expansions vs smaller constant content updates 00:47:20 – How do you balance the OSRS economy? 00:52:01 – how do you balance raid rewards to avoid inflation? 00:54:40 – Ironman and other limitations, which are worth designing? 00:59:00 – is OSRS a single player game in a multiplayer world? 01:01:20 – OSRS in popular culture 01:04:25 – Why is OSRS so perfect for 'challenge accounts' 01:06:10 – Snailman mode? 01:08:02 – The community content vote, what are the downsides? 01:15:30 – What one thing would you change about OSRS? 01:19:20 – designing for mobile vs PC 01:23:55 – why are 3rd party launchers so popular? 01:29:35 – the lv3 jad kill, what other crazy stuff have players done? 01:35:20 – Designing for the elite vs designing for the masses 01:42:06 – Leagues and Deadman, are they for Youtubers / twitch streamers? 01:47:20 – How are you avoiding Power creep? 01:54:30 – What does the future hold for OSRS? https://oldschool.runescape.com/