Iterative design

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What is game design? Nothing but a miserable pile of cut content.

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I still think hacking a gene sequencer by hiding malware in your blood is one of the most hardcore cyberpunk things we've done as a species.

And we did it almost a decade ago.

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If you're ever in the position to give feedback to a project that you want to succeed, try using the Ideo feedback framework of:

1. I like...
2. I wish...
3. What if...

Adding something you genuinely like and to offering a remedy to the issue matters quite a bit.

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"Oh you're designing a video game? What are you using?"

...Spreadsheets

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When you get a bug report on Friday at 3.

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I love hearing about all the crazy work arounds people make on consoles. One of the coolest I’ve heard of is what Crash Bandicoot devs did to make their game fit on the original playstation:

Overwriting some built-in code libraries at runtime to maximize the available memory. WILD.

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https://youtu.be/izxXGuVL21o?si=zmjV1taradyqQxQB

So, we all know that the E.T. Atari game "almost killed the video game market" but did you know that the full development cycle for the whole game was 5 weeks and was done by one dev?

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