Who's the Beatdown II: Multitasking
Zvi's sequel to Mike Flores's 'Who's the Beatdown?'. Where Flores teaches the binary (you are either offense or defense), Zvi teaches the harder reality: multi-axis games where you must do both at once. The natural follow-up after the original.
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