halowars.com - 8/20/2009
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David Leary, one of the designers at Robot Entertainment looks back at his work on Halo Wars, and specifically the playtesting that went in to it:
One of the great Ensemble traditions that we’ve carried forward to Robot is universal company playtesting. We try to get our games up and running ...
carnage.bungie.org - 8/20/2009
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By: 2900d4u Date: 8/19/09 7:39 pm David Leary,
one of the designers on Halo Wars, has written...
up a Dev Blog. Halo Wars Playtesting : http://www.halowars.com/news/devblog/default.aspx TheFinalFight
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Halo Wars Dev Blog: Playtesting Halo Wars
carnage.bungie.org - 8/26/2009
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By: 2900d4u Date: 8/25/09 6:00 pm "Dave Pottinger,
Halo Wars Lead Designer, has written up a small...
post-mortem on the Halo Wars Project. Called Lessons Learned it talks a bit about what it was like getting Halo Wars out the door, and what he took ...
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Halo Wars Dev Blog: Lessons Learned
joystiq.com - 8/19/2009
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joystiq.com —
The generous builders over at Mega Bloks were
kind enough to send over a few cases of...
the company's recently launched Halo Wars brick collection . Seeing as we aren't the greedy types, we decided to share our Blok bounty by holding one of our ...
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Joyswag: Halo Wars Mega Bloks
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Halo Wars Dev Blog: Playtesting
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Halo Wars designer David Leary has written another Developers Blog entry over at HaloWars.com - this one focuses on playtesting. Give it a read! Thanks, ...
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... Halo Wars Dev Blog: Playtesting Halo Wars designer David Leary has written another Developers Blog entry over at HaloWars.com - this one focuses on playtesting. Give it a read! Thanks, ...
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