Porridge and the Principle of Isolation

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro, the Principle of Isolation
0:24 The porridge story
1:19 The people playing your game are like children!
2:17 As the game designer, you know much more than your players
2:54 Super Space Slayer 2 and the POI
3:57 Figure out the 'basic porridge' of your game and elements one at a time, it's like muesli!
4:23 Super Mario 3D World had a learning-based approach
4:51 Learning is fun, fun is learning, school sucks
5:51 Conclusion
6:04 Message me 'GAME PLAN' in my Discord and chat!

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