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Game design has no textbook, so a designer has to keep their own list of the elements of fun the way a writer keeps the elements of fiction.

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  1. Jeff Kaplan

    American game designer and director

    And there’s no, like, textbook that exists for game design, at least none that has been introduced to me yet. But I think about, like, elements of fun.

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