Hello and welcome to Failure & Analysis. My name is Kevin Jordan. I'm a video game industry veteran with nearly 20 years of experience in game design. I love playing games and talking about game design and hope to bring both to this channel. Please join me and I hope you love the content! Companies I've worked for: Blizzard Entertainment - 11 years Cryptozoic Entertainment - 5 years Obsidian Entertainment - 2 years Games I've most contributed to: World of Warcraft - One of three original game designers on the team. Hex: Shards of Fate - PvE, items, classes. Tyranny - Character classes, enemies, spells and abilities, bosses, items, combat mechanics.

Here are some of my favorite games/franchises of all time. This list is not only what I've enjoyed over the years as a player but also transformed the way I think about game design. Not a ranked list, just a list. Alphabetical, actually. Battle Brothers Blood Bowl Counterstrike Dark Souls Dawn of War II Dungeons and Dragons Escape from Tarkov Fallout: New Vegas Football Manager Jagged Alliance 2 League of Legends Magic: The Gathering Pool of Radiance (and other Gold Box games) Street Fighter Team Fortress (2fort4!) Ultima Online XCOM (Original and Modern) And of course a special mention to World of Warcraft. This is a game I was fortunate to work on and play for over a decade. Below is a list of games I've played in recent years that I was really impressed by but haven't quite nudged their way onto the above list. Time will tell: Crusader Kings Darkest Dungeon Europa Universalis FTL: Faster than Light Knights of the Chalice The Long Dark Prison Architect RimWorld Sword of the Stars: The Pit The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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