All Notes

On the power of unpredictable rewards.

Addictive games keep players exercising a skill, taking risks, and working a strategy simultaneously.

Plan to ship at half the budget, use the rest to make it great.

Define the problem clearly before designing.

Choices only matter if the options are meaningfully different and none is obviously dominant.

Visualising Newton's 2nd law and opposing forces using Roblox's BodyForce object.

A linear story interrupted by gameplay segments.

High-risk, high-reward choices that make games fun.

Every element of a game should reinforce a single theme.

Adding two vectors by summing their corresponding components.