Sure, though I'm not sure that's a common enough experience to be a meaningful touchstone

Mark seems to include comments of the developers from time to time, like his video on x-com 2s timers and how to encourage players to play the way you want to play. or his videos about mario's hat and movement

I think he does a good job overall, but often misses things relevant to the practitioner

I'm also wary of the high-level approach because I've seen my share of disasters wrought by designers trying to build the vision without the building blocks, or not connectign them well

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/diners-confront-mitch-mcconnell-at-restaurant-get-told-to-leave-him-alone-by-others

I think it best to take stuff like his as you would philosophies about art generally

not good design then is it

And two days after that, Mitch gets mobbed... the left are the biggest hypocrites.

Good to read wide, but never good to take as gospel

oh never

things to take into consideration

Yes, I think so

I've just seen his stuff shared among designers and non-designers alike a lot as normative

It's thoughtful, but also really easy to just use as a justification for your own weak design skills

anyone who views a 1000 mile view as anything closer to the ground than 1000 miles is doomed to fall a 1000 miles.

who are u talking about

There's that in spades in the industry

i think there is that in spades in any industry tbh

i see my fair share at my work

True, but it always feel like a lot of other industries have more...checks on that

Hello world 👋

hi

Or at least damage mitigation

idk about that, i think you just don't see all the failed projects as much

better hidden

More cheaply failed?

quicker to crash

That's the sort of thing I mean

well some things just have shorter life cycles. anything software based is gonna have a pretty long life cycle relatively speaking

I think it's more to do with it being art vs. directly useful

I have lots of friends in software stuff where they can narrow down what's working and what's not pretty easily

"Fun" is...a lot fuzzier

true

although so is figuring out interfaces that work

If you're in that market, anyway; I'm not sure what your average F2P mobile game optimizes for is "fun"

Yeah, but that has known methods that are _relatively_ cheap to investigate

e.g. A/B testing

true

IMO games are just too expensive to produce

And that will have to change sooner or later

At least for the AAA open-world stuff