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For their 50th episode, The Ringer&#039;s Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion welcome Kotaku news editor Jason Schreier to discuss the industry trends and revelations inside his new book (&#039;Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made&#039;) and their early impressions of &#039;Destiny 2&#039; (2:50). Then they bring on Sophia Park and Penelope Evans, the cocreators of &#039;Localhost&#039; and &#039;Arc Symphony,&#039; to talk about how they provoke emotional reactions in players, how they build games in Twine, and the economics of indie development (51:10).
 
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Ben is a writer, podcaster, and editor who covers culture and sports. He hosts ‘Effectively Wild’ at FanGraphs and previously wrote for FiveThirtyEight and Grantland, served as editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus, and authored ‘The MVP Machine’ and ‘The Only Rule Is It Has to Work.’

‘Blood, Sweat, and Pixels,’ ‘Destiny 2,’ and ‘Localhost’ (Ep. 50)

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