Ask most people to picture a piece of music and they'll picture a story. An intro that sets the mood, a build, a hook you remember, a climax, a resolution. That's how songs work. It's how film scores work too, most of the time: they're written to a scene that has a beginning and an end. A perfect game loop has none of that. And the moment you try to write one like a song, it falls apart. A song has an ending. A loop doesn't. A verse-chorus structure exists because the piece is going...

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