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A puzzle that invites guessing and then punishes wrong guesses stops the player learning the very method it could have taught.

Drawn from what Raph Koster said

What these subjects mean

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

video games Games as software and as storytelling: how they are made, by how few, and what the medium does better than film.

Design is how it works

What Raph Koster actually said

  1. Raph Koster Game designer and theorist
    Fundamentally, the game invites you to make guesses, but punishes you for them — and a missed guess doesn’t help you prune the logic space, only the trivia space.

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