Why Game Designers Need to Play Games | Critical Thought #gamedev #indiedev

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Published on July 11, 2023 11:33:09 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8P9AVGRUEo

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For this critical thought, I wanted to finally put the argument to rest regarding if playing videogames is an important part of designing them.

0:00 Intro
00:24 The Yearly Gamedev Discourse
1:15 Why There is an Argument
4:16 Why Games are Different
5:36 The Blindspots of Watching Footage
7:45 Why are you making this?
10:16 Why Streamers Won't Help
11:14 What you should be studying
13:10 The Good, Bad, and Ugly
15:15 The One Role of Watching Videos
16:23 When You Get It, or you Don't
21:01 Wrapping Up


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