Your First Game Idea Is Probably Wrong

The Book/Paper -   / why-greatness-cannot-be-planned   TL;DR -    • Ken Stanley's talk on Why Greatness Cannot...   More from us Play Thornity's Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publis... Learn with Connor - https://sundaybrunchstudios.com/studi... 0:00 Great Games Can’t Be Planned 3:11 Stop Designing Toward the Destination 4:45 Prototype Ideas, Not Entire Games 6:23 Stop Trying to Pitch a Prototype 8:24 Why Copying Great Mechanics Fails 10:23 Why “Friend Slop” Works 15:08 Explore First, Validate Early 21:31 Follow the Players, Not Your Vision 23:31 When Do You Stop Iterating? 27:55 What If Players Want a Different Game? 34:17 Exploration Needs a Deadline 40:18 What Game Jams Are Actually For 48:15 Finding the Signal in Player Feedback 57:04 Watching Game Dev Isn’t Game Dev 59:26 A Better Game Jam Experiment