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Read this korrent: Almost no game ever catches the wave, so a game that has caught one should be ridden to the end rather than paused to build its sequel.
Almost no game ever catches the wave, so a game that has caught one should be ridden to the end rather than paused to build its sequel.
Last stated 7 months ago
11 Mar 2026
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Jeff Kaplan — holds since 2026-03-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A strategy does not play a game; playing requires something that can see the game and choose to enter it. — tap to centre the map on it
A strategy does not play a game; playing requires something that can see the game and choose to enter it.
Last stated 2 years ago
8 May 2024
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Frank Lantz — holds since 2024-05-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Anyone who wants to understand games should learn to play the compulsive ones and, in the same motion, learn how to stop. — tap to centre the map on it
Anyone who wants to understand games should learn to play the compulsive ones and, in the same motion, learn how to stop.
Last stated 2 years ago
25 Jul 2024
FL
Frank Lantz — holds since 2024-07-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A comedy world cannot run on jokes alone: forty hours of humour needs story, heart and drama underneath it or it stops working. — tap to centre the map on it
A comedy world cannot run on jokes alone: forty hours of humour needs story, heart and drama underneath it or it stops working.
Last stated 12 months ago
31 Oct 2025
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Dan Houser — holds since 2025-10-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A game is a machine built around uncertainty. — tap to centre the map on it
A game is a machine built around uncertainty.
Last stated 12 months ago
3 Nov 2025
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Raph Koster — holds since 2025-11-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A game is an equation between two personalities, the world's and the protagonist's, and the friction between them is where the experience comes from. — tap to centre the map on it
A game is an equation between two personalities, the world's and the protagonist's, and the friction between them is where the experience comes from.
Last stated 12 months ago
31 Oct 2025
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Dan Houser — holds since 2025-10-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A profit motive inside a game holds players there long past the point where they are still enjoying it. — tap to centre the map on it
A profit motive inside a game holds players there long past the point where they are still enjoying it.
Last stated 8 years ago
30 Jan 2019
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Raph Koster — holds since 2019-01-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Free-to-play games use the same techniques as gambling machines in order to maximise what players spend and how long they stay. — tap to centre the map on it
Free-to-play games use the same techniques as gambling machines in order to maximise what players spend and how long they stay.
Last stated 13 years ago
3 Jul 2013
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Raph Koster — holds since 2013-07-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The modern struggle is individuals, cut off from tribe and religion, standing up to weaponized addictions. — tap to centre the map on it
The modern struggle is individuals, cut off from tribe and religion, standing up to weaponized addictions.
Last stated 6 years ago
12 Mar 2021
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Naval Ravikant — holds since 2021-03-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A good open-world spy game may not be possible, because a spy story has to run against the clock and an open world needs the player free to wander. — tap to centre the map on it
A good open-world spy game may not be possible, because a spy story has to run against the clock and an open world needs the player free to wander.
Last stated 12 months ago
31 Oct 2025
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Dan Houser — holds since 2025-10-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A puzzle that invites guessing and then punishes wrong guesses stops the player learning the very method it could have taught. — tap to centre the map on it
A puzzle that invites guessing and then punishes wrong guesses stops the player learning the very method it could have taught.
Last stated 3 years ago
2 Sept 2023
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Raph Koster — holds since 2023-09-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Balancing a system elegantly is not the same as giving people what they actually came for, which is emotion. — tap to centre the map on it
Balancing a system elegantly is not the same as giving people what they actually came for, which is emotion.
Last stated 12 years ago
10 Mar 2015
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Tynan Sylvester — holds since 2015-03-10 — tap for who they are
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