A chat with Ben Brode of Second Dinner about Agatha Harkness, a card in Marvel Snap.
I've been playing Marvel Snap for months now, and there's a particular card that has been blowing my mind a bit. Agatha Harkness takes over your hand and plays your cards for you. She essentially turns the game into an auto-battler. And since I first encountered her, I've been trying to work out how she goes about all this, and why she's in the game in the first place. [Unsurprising spoiler: my theories were deeply incorrect.
So we do both things. They have pros and cons. Going bottom-up, you get designs that could really help bring new deck archetypes into play. Key role-players. Like, we need a card that moves a card if we're going to have cards like by Multiple Man, right? You have to have stuff that does this. So, maybe Iron Fist could punch him to the left or something. I don't know. So you come up with the thing you want to do first, and then you put the best fit flavour on top of that.
One of the interesting things from your GDC talk comes in here, I wonder? You mentioned a comment from George Fan, the creator of Plants vs Zombies, who said that when it comes to in-game instructional text, eight words is really about as far as you can go with things - people won't read more than that reliably. I thought that was a brilliant observation.
This is wonderful to hear. There's so much I want to ask you about that, but I won't or we'll be here forever. Once you knew what you wanted Agatha to do, how does she do it? It's strange - I know you have bots in the game, but I never think of Agatha as just a bot. She feels different. Is she different?Here's how she works. She always tries to play herself. So if she can play herself, she'll play herself. Most times she can't, because you don't have six mana, but she always tries to play herself first each turn.[Long pause.] She what? I'm not ready. I'm not prepared for this.
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