{"id":2305,"date":"2017-10-27T00:15:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T00:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2017-10-27T00:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T00:16:18","slug":"readings-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/2017\/10\/27\/readings-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Readings Repsonse: Play (Avi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How to prototype a game in under 7 days by Kyle Gray, Kyle Gabler, Shalin Shodhan, Matt Kucic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First of all, I had no idea that Tower of Goo was CMU\/ETC project! I definitely remember playing that back in the day. Overall I think the advice here seems pretty solid. Some of it is familiar to me, especially the &#8220;creativity needs constraints&#8221; bit, which happens all the time in this class as well as other art\/design classes I&#8217;ve taken and am taking (for example, Acting for Non-Majors).<\/p>\n<p>One major\u00a0class of advice seems to be about productivity, and debunking some myths around team dynamics. I definitely\u00a0agree with the point about &#8220;2x the time doesn&#8217;t mean 2x the quality&#8221;, that&#8217;s sort of like the Mythical Man Month concept from the software engineering world.\u00a0Similarly, the process of gathering concept art reminds me of a mood board.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly resonated with the &#8220;nobody knows or cares how you made it&#8221; and &#8220;forget great engineering&#8221; notions &#8212; that&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve seen first hand (and subsequently evangelized at hackathons over and over). As someone who&#8217;s programmed professionally for a\u00a0while, it&#8217;s often hard to\u00a0let the temptation to optimize (prematurely) go.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the &#8220;make it juicy&#8221; bit reminded me of this awesome talk (recorded with poor quality, unfortunately) from a game design conference:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fy0aCDmgnxg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to prototype a game in under 7 days by Kyle Gray, Kyle Gabler, Shalin Shodhan, Matt Kucic First of all, I had no idea that Tower of Goo was CMU\/ETC project! I definitely remember playing that back in the day. Overall I think the advice here seems pretty solid. Some of it is familiar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/2017\/10\/27\/readings-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Readings Repsonse: Play (Avi)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}