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	<description>Firecaster among other projects</description>
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		<title>Age of Heroes Beta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The beta testing for Age of Heroes has started. I put up a host bot to host games. Replays will be saved, and post all bugs/suggestions on the forum
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		<link>http://firecaster.com/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Work (in games)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most basic things to look for when trying to make your game more fun is work. Work is easier to explain through example, but can generally be described as any boring task the player is forced to preform. Work is not all bad though, and can be used to strengthen a reward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firecaster.com/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Age of Heroes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Age of Heroes is a new game I have been working on for Warcraft III. The premise was too take what Warcraft III did to Starcraft (less units, more spells, more intense micro), and do it again for Warcraft III. AoH is an RTS with ONLY heroes. There are no units other than buildings and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firecaster.com/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Why We Play Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post I am going to attempt to answer why we play games.
In my opinion, there are three why games are fun:

Learning
Fake Accomplishment
Real Accomplishment

Learning
The first reason why games are fun is that they teach us things. From an evolutionary standpoint, those that know things will do better than those that don't.  Your brain rewards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firecaster.com/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Firecaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I am going to try to give an insight to what Firecaster actually is and how it came about. First will be the history. If that bores you, you can go skip down the the about section.
History
The game first started after some of my friends convinced me to play Maple Story. Maple story is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firecaster.com/?p=11</link>
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		<title>Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm no good with titles lol. I guess I will get better with time. I just made a site for clan bom, so if you are here for that the link is www.firecaster.com/bom.
In other news, Firecaster server is back online. It may be a bit buggy, as I haven't looked over the current version that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firecaster.com/?p=9</link>
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		<title>Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I am finally getting organized with all this stuff. On the side you can see links to Story Spheres and Firecaster. Firecaster server is currently down, I will try to get it up later with an update, but I have midterms so no guarantee. Some of you may have not known about Story Spheres, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firecaster.com/?p=6</link>
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