several big mistakes
- don’t obsess about cosmetics unless they add to the central game play - lots of games have realistic blood, but it doens’t add anything - the blood isn’t slippery for instance. same with big piles of bodies - they look cool - but if the enemy can just walk thru them with [...]
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common mistakes ch from chris crawford’s on game design
reading notes: Buxton - Sketching User Experiences
Bill Buxton, Sketching User Experiences, 2007
heard about it at Future Play in Toronto
going to be useful in the game design classes - starting int he sophomore class for sure - is there anyway to use it in the freshman classes - maybe in the critical analysis - make sketches while you’re coming up with ideas [...]