Short Games and Long Games - Incentives for Authors

Im of the opinion to some people it’s the length of the playthrough that they look at almost as if they don’t understand the beauty is in replaying them making different choices.
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Yeah: as we know from this thread,

How many times do you play through a CS game?[quote=“Nocturnal_Stillness, post:20, topic:22609”]

some people don’t want to play a game more than once: that’s how they like to experience this kind of writing, and that’s good, too. But 45k-70k per playthrough gets “too short” comments? That probably just means your game is well written and you left them wanting more. Tin Star has 80k words per playthrough. We can’t all write Tin Star-length games, and more to the point, if you are writing a Choice Of label game, you wouldn’t want to.

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