Max Nichols' Game Design blog
Someone posted about how gaming culture’s narrow musical tastes feels alienating. The thread was thoughtful, but a lot of replies (from game industry folks) have gone into the “insulting people for having basic tastes” territory.
So let’s talk a little bit about “taste” and literacy in a medium.
3 concepts that are tightly connected but hard to articulate:
– Designing from “first principles”
– Having a “personal aesthetic”
– Making day-to-day decisions
Lemme talk about how these things work, and color perception of what “good design” is.
NPR’s All Things Considered radio show was doing a series of short stories covering trade lingo in different industries. I submitted a list of game development…
Preface (3/23/2015): This survey was originally published almost a year ago, at my small Zelda site, Zeldadata.com. The audience was Zelda fans, not game devs!…