--- title: One More Game | daily.dev description: Tim Cain, veteran RPG developer known for Fallout, Arcanum, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, poses a question to his audience: if he were to make one... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/one-more-game-umkz7dhxt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: One More Game | daily.dev og:description: Tim Cain, veteran RPG developer known for Fallout, Arcanum, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, poses a question to his audience: if he were to make one... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/one-more-game-umkz7dhxt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UmkZ7dHXT.png og:image:alt: One More Game og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # One More Game **[Cain on Games](https://daily.dev/sources/cainongames)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tim Cain, veteran RPG developer known for Fallout, Arcanum, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, poses a question to his audience: if he were to make one final game before retiring, what should it be? He frames the discussion around three pillars — setting (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or mixed), story structure (long epic vs. short main story with side quests, personal vs. reactive narrative), and system mechanics (combat vs. narrative focus, companions, real-time vs. turn-based, class vs. skill systems, and progression models). He also reflects on the difficulty of knowing what 'most gamers' want, noting that player preferences are deeply contradictory. He invites community input to see if any consensus emerges. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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