All Notes

Notes from Jesse Schell's comprehensive guide to game design.

A market with a lot of competitiors fighting for dominance

When an object inherits from multiple parents.

OOP in Lua via prototypal inheritance — objects delegate missing field lookups to a prototype table.

Metamethods for intercepting table reads and writes — the foundation of OOP in Lua.

A table attached to another table to define its custom behaviour, via metamethods like __add and __index.

Strong multiplayer communities form when players genuinely need each other to succeed.

A map of what each character thinks of every other character.

A two-axis diagram for visualising character relationships in a story.

A fictional world that can be entered through many different types of media.