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Undermine Major Tips and Boss/NPC Part 1

Undermine is a Roguelike action game developed by Thorium Entertainment and published by Fandom. If that sounds familiar it is because it is, Fandom is the popular website that provides a wiki platform for video games. Undermine is their first published game and it is a phenomenal start for them just entering the industry and hopefully they continue publishing titles as good as Undermine. This guide to Undermine covers these major aspects of the Undermine game. This is an updated guide to the one I have posted to the Steam Community Guides under the name:  Leafafarian.  1.Introduction to the game 2.Major Helpful info/tips 3.Bosses in Undermine-Attacks, how to defeat 4.NPC's and unlockable characters you will meet.  Introduction: You are a peasant sent into the mines by your boss the wizard who wants you to collect gold for him and along your journey to find the source of the tremors that are shaking the mine back and forth. Along the way y...

How Video Games Benefit You

(Faster than Light) As more and more people pick up the controller and learn about video games it is important to address an important aspect of video games. The AARP has reported that 44% of people over 50 have played a video game at least once a month in 2019. There are many ways in which video games benefit us from increasing our cognitive abilities and preventing brain related diseases to increasing physical dexterity in our hands. It is time we give up in thinking that video games are "a waste of time" or that we should "Go play outside instead". Many of us have grown up hearing those very same words spoken again and again to us. Teens and children are still being told the same old lines today as in the past whether that be harsh limits put on playing video games or the parents showing that they disapprove of the hobby. (World of Warcraft) We know now that this is not true and is outright misleading as video games have been shown to benefit us in many...

How to Win at Games Without Using Guides

Over the last 2 decades video game guides and wiki's have become a standard part of playing video games. There are many reasons why but one of the main ones is that people are limited in time and don't want to spend hours trying to figure out what to do next. Second many games are not intuitive in their design and require guides and wiki's to use alongside playing the game. Titles that require crafting and recipe's have become more and more popular over the last decade with the release of games such as Minecraft, Terraria, and survival simulation games. Often these games will not have a database of crafting recipe's and it is up to you the player to figure them out one by one. And if they do it is often far easier to look up the recipe online then try to find it in-game. Many of us are familiar with the abundance of Wiki's and guides that can be found online. And though many of us are not strangers to guides we sometimes  want to complete a game without us...