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Designing Replay
PC Gamer US Edition
|July 2019
Using NG+ to build larger worlds in smaller spaces.
New Game Plus (styled as “New Game+” or “NG+”) typically allows players to begin a game all over again, retaining a significant amount of unlocks and potentially gaining new insight into a game’s world through added features. It allows developers to extend potential game time using existing content, and the addition of this mode in the many forms it can take seems to be popular—so why aren’t more developers doing it?
This story is from the July 2019 edition of PC Gamer US Edition.
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