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Mental Note #1

Hi all…

Too much talking about Bold Pixel Engine! Time to move on a bit… for some unrelated reason I took a look at my personal blog that I left a long time ago.

I found a “Quotes” category there and gosh the ammount of mental notes there is overwhelming, mostly on game design. Things that were written a long time ago in some of the early game design books that live in many of the older developers shelfs. Some of the things that were written contradict many of the things that aspiring developers think, sometimes reading it can be cruel… doesn’t mean it is not true.

Today I bring you Chris Crawford, like others I might write here, one of my favorites.

Complete amateurs whose only relevant skill is programming undertake to design games with no further preparation than their own experience as game players. Those who overrate their own understanding undercut their own potential for learning.

Chris Crawford @ The Art of Computer Game Design