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Okay, so today I'm going to talk about a concept in design. I've mentioned this before called stickiness.

So I will talk about what stickiness is, how one gets stickiness, how things are unsticky, all the sticky things you need to know

today. Okay, so the idea of stickiness is it talks about how easy it is for someone to process

and remember something, usually a mechanic. So one of the things to keep in mind is that there's many, as the designers of the game,

there's many balls we're juggling.

One of the things we want to make sure is that what we're doing makes sense to the player,

that the player understands it.

And stickiness is kind of a sign of how much we are doing things that make it easy for the player to understand stuff. Now, not everything

is sticky necessarily, but as things get less sticky, and at some point you get to things that are what I would

call unsticky. So let's walk through it. What exactly makes something sticky? Okay, first and

foremost, I think is an intuitive sense. And what I mean by that is that if I tell you something, I give you some flavor,

I'll give a good example. A lot of times when I'm teaching flying, what I say to someone

is this creature flies. What do you think that means? And most of the time, they get it right. They're like, oh, well, it's up in the air.

Okay, well, what does it mean that they're up in the air? Oh, well, things that aren't up in the air

can't block them. Exactly. Right. And that the more intuitive something is, the easier it is to

process. The more that something does what you think it will do.

So there's a lot of work on our end of making sure that what we're doing is what players expect it to be.

A classic example of this, a story I've told before, but when we were making suspend,

so suspend was mechanic in time spiral block. And so when you

play it, it gets exiled with some number of suspend counters or time counters on it. And then each

turn you take off a time counter and eventually it gets cast. And what we found was when we put

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