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by fire_lake 615 days ago
Jon Blow tried to make a game like this way back. It might be worth learning how/why it failed.
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Link to any video or anything on the subject?
Unless I'm mistaken, I think fire_lake might be referring to a wholly unrelated first-person RPG spellcasting game project wherein the player would draw glyphs with their mouse in order to cast spells, and then there would be a surprise later in the game based on this mechanic (which was later repurposed for The Witness).
Yes, it reminded me of his talk on prototyping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISutk1mauPM&t=426s