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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1030: F.I.R.E. Design

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

R&D uses a philosophy in design known as F.I.R.E. design. There are a lot of misconceptions as to what it means, so I walk through its philosophy in this podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what baggies. It's time for us to drive to work.

0:06.2

Okay, so today I'm going to talk all about fire design. A much maligned...

0:14.1

So R&D, I'm going to talk about what fire design is, how it came to be, what it represents, the philosophy behind it, and then

0:22.7

explain how I think it, I think people attribute a lot of things to fire design that aren't

0:28.9

part of fire design.

0:30.3

So we will get to that.

0:32.3

Okay, so the origin of fire design is Aaron Forsyth, my boss.

0:37.8

We're trying to sort of want to think about things that when we make a set, there are certain

0:45.9

qualities that he just wanted the team to think about for every set they make.

0:50.4

And the idea was that he would take them and list them. So say, okay, when you make a set, list these things.

0:57.9

These are the things we want to do.

0:59.7

And I know originally, I forget exactly what, when we originally made it, there were just four letters.

1:05.2

They didn't spell anything.

1:07.5

And my advice to Aaron was it'll be a lot easier for people to remember

1:11.3

you use

1:12.5

mnemonics to your, you know, use the power of nomenics.

1:15.4

And so he figured out how to pick four words

1:18.1

that can make a word.

1:21.0

And so fire was the word he ended up making.

1:24.3

So the four qualities that fire represents

1:27.1

is fun, inviting, replayable, and exciting.

1:33.6

So I'm going to go through each of those four qualities, talk about why exactly they're

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