I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for the drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic is from my blog.

I've talked in the past, I've done podcasts on feedback from players, but someone wanted

to know about feedback from other designers.

How do we, what process do we use in the making of magic to get feedback from

one another? And so today that is my topic. Feedback from designers. So what I decided I was

going to do is I'm going to run through the exploratory design and vision design portions of

design as that's what I oversee, and I'm going to give like

sort of tangible examples of how we do feedback.

So really quickly, for those that might not remember what exploratory design and vision

design is, there's a metaphor I like to use, which is house building.

When making me a magic set, we are building a house. So exploratory design is doing

sort of research. Where would we like to build a house? What type of houses are there? Are there

new building materials we might want to consider? You know, it's doing all the prep work so that you

understand the parameters of what you need to do when you go to build the house.

Vision design is like architecture.

You are putting together the general structure of the set.

You're picking most of the mechanics, the themes, you're making the general shape of what the mechanic will be.

And essentially you're making blueprints.

Then the set design team, they are the builders.

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