I'm pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to drive to work.

Okay. So today, it's another in my series, 20 Lessons, 20 podcasts, where I take my GDC speech,

where I talk about the 20 lessons, or 20 of the lessons I learn while designing magic for 20 years.

And I'm up to lesson number 11, which is,

if everybody likes your game, but nobody loves it, it will fail. Okay, so usually to start,

I give an example from magic. So to understand this one, there's a tool that we use in R&D,

which we call the Rare Pole. So one of the things that, there's a lot of different things that we&D, which we call the rare pole.

So one of the things that, there's a lot of different things that we care about, but one

of the things is what I'll call splash.

That we want to make sure that our cars, especially our rairs and our mythic rarers, are

exciting, that we want people to see them and go, ooh, that's cool, I'm excited by that.

So how do you test that? So what we do is we have everybody in the company who opts in and not just R&D, but people

all around the company, to take a poll.

And what we do is we take every single rare and mythic rare card in the set we're polling,

and then we give it to people,

we show them the card and it's whatever version it's currently in, the closest to final that we can,

and then we ask them to rate it on a scale of 1 to 10.

Basically, 1 means, I don't like it. And 10 means, I like it.

So, really, it's a range from talking about really, like, you know, one is like, I hate this card.

Do not make this card.

This card is horrible.

And 10 is, oh, my goodness, this is an amazing card.

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