Why Empathy Is a Game Designer’s #1 Skill

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Designers: your strongest skill isn’t code...it’s empathy.
Every choice you make hits someone else’s timeline. What’s a day for you might be a week for an artist (or impossible this sprint), so loop them in early and design with their constraints in mind.
When has empathy changed a design call you were about to make?

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