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Mastering No Damage Gameplay: A Practical Guide to Clean Runs
For years I chased speed records and high scores in my favorite action games. I would restart a level ten times, memorizing enemy spawns and perfecting my route. But something always bothered me. Even when I finished fast, I took hits. A stray bullet here, a lucky punch there. Those hits added up, and they felt like failure. That is when I started focusing on something different: no damage gameplay. No damage gameplay is not just about avoiding death. It is a philosophy. It