Secrets of System Design with Mike Sellers - Systems in Games
Systems design is a key 21st-century skill that every product leader should master. Here, longtime game designer and professor Mike Sellers explain what systems thinking is, why it's important, and how YOU can harness the power of systems thinking to build better products.
Secrets of System Design with Mike Sellers - Systems in Games
In this excerpt, Mike explains the player feedback loop, in which a player builds up a mental model of the game by interacting with the system.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:08 - How mental models help users
00:37 - Mike Sellers
02:17 - Mental models in games
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