How MidBoss encodes a player's game data in shareable 'death cards'

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Gamasutra speaks with MidBoss developer Emma "Eniko" Maassen about sharing save files via Twitter, steganographically encoded in an embedded image of the protagonist's grisly fate.

Site iconGame Developer — Jan 26, 2018

An examination of “death cards” from MidBoss - a really clever play artifact that encodes the player’s save file into a shareable trading card that can be used to seed new games.

Tags: Shared Link, TOPIC: Play Artifacts, TOPIC: Marketing, GAME: MidBoss

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