this isn't really about anything in particular. it's just something i notice a lot where people judge things based on preconceptions of how they "should" play or how it immediately makes them feel, and it feels like a really limiting way to look at anything - ThreadSky

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systemendless.bsky.social • 28 days ago

this isn't really about anything in particular. it's just something i notice a lot where people judge things based on preconceptions of how they "should" play or how it immediately makes them feel, and it feels like a really limiting way to look at anything

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implosivetyphlo.bsky.social•27 days ago

not only do I agree with this take but I'm gonna go a step further and say that being able to understand design decisions in context like that is a necessary skill to evaluate the art of game design

systemendless.bsky.social•27 days ago

i agree yeah. if you're not considering that context all you're really judging is your own idea of what you want it to be and not what it actually is

lpd2.bsky.social•27 days ago

That's brilliant

theeliasfrost.bsky.social•27 days ago

I agree. I mean, thinking about game design and implementing specific ones are totally different things. What seems good in your head very rarely translates 1-to-1 to a design that is actually good in practice.

theeliasfrost.bsky.social•27 days ago

It's about context, as another commenter puts it. A "good idea" is only good insofar that you're able to actually extract the "good" from it and fit it into a greater structure (the rest of the game). If you can't do that, the idea probably wasn't very "good" (see: compatible), in the first place.

theeliasfrost.bsky.social•27 days ago

What I mean to say is that very process is usually dismissed as you say. Or in most cases people are unaware. The thinking goes that "This design is bad, they should've done it like X or Y", without understaing the context that went into the design in the first place.

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