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Answering your questions! Hidden Consequences vs. Explicit Feedback

Answering your questions! Hidden Consequences vs. Explicit Feedback

Update: 2025-08-26
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Today we answer your questions and we had a great question come from Plexicraft! Narrative expert, Martin Montgomery, returns to Brain Arcade to dig into how player choices shape narrative. From Chrono Trigger’s hidden consequences to Telltale’s “everyone will remember that” prompts, we explore the pros and cons of explicit feedback vs. subtle systems and what it means for player agency.




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Answering your questions! Hidden Consequences vs. Explicit Feedback

Answering your questions! Hidden Consequences vs. Explicit Feedback

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