As a designer and developer, my goals are to explore my own approach to game design that feels true to MY experiences, and for players to find enriching connections between my experiences and their own, and for their lives to be made better in some way by that. It's a process of human connection.

Ultimately, I don't believe in "objectively bad" game design. Any rules of design we establish also create opportunities for interesting subversion. Different players want different experiences. Culture and outside context inform and transform those experiences. It's a rich medium to work in!

...whereas an incoherent game leads to a mix of positive and negative experiences depending on each player's motivations and expectations. This also pushes players to deconstruct the game and engage with it as abstract design components rather than as a single experiential artifact.

This leads to a definition of "good" design as coherence and "bad" design as incoherence, in that a coherent game has a potential audience that will likely enjoy it holistically and facilitates leading that potential audience into actually experiencing the game - a tractable communication problem.

Most often when I see players having bad (negative and not enriching) experiences in a game, it's because the game doesn't deliver the experience they want or expect. This doesn't make the DESIGN bad, but it does make the PRODUCT ineffective in connecting with its potential audience (large or small)

ok but how is it??

for the same development cost and military impracticality we could have had mechs instead of F35s

"I'd love to help, but we should align on high-level goals for the project and build out a rough production timeline before starting any concrete work"

don't look for the clever solution until you've tried at least 5 different unclever solutions

would a species with a greater number of independent, dexterous appendages tend to develop more complex weaving and fabric manipulation techniques? seems advantageous for producing soft artifacts or structures that require maintaining multiple points of tension

blasting Epic Nightcore Hits [10 Hours Continuous Mix] at 0.25x speed, sleeping peacefully

IIRC Rusty's Retirement does have some different layout/docking options including vertical - but I also struggle to fit them alongside other apps and wish they behaved more like ordinary windows

also the toothpaste will be fluoride free and sweetened with real cane sugar

I feel like the version of star mix without those is much too uniform and doesn't deliver on being a "mix" - the flavors and shapes of standard gummies are not really enough of a differentiator

I'm also just a sicko for the foamy texture though; things like frogs or peach rings are top tier for me