I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Okay, so today is based on a column I wrote a while back called Five Requests I Often Have to Ignore.

And the point out of the column in today's podcast is talking about how there's certain requests I get from players a lot that I don't think

necessarily leads to good designs. So I'm gonna walk through what these requests

are and why I think they can be problematic. Now to start, the first thing I

have to explain is what is design about? Why do you design a game? And so let me

first talk about what I consider the goal to be.

So I think that the goal of the game design is to create an optimal experience for your target audience.

That you are trying to create something that is a joyful experience for the people that you mean for it to be.

And when I say optimal, the experience, most people is entertainment, most people is fun.

There are people to make games to promote other emotions and things.

I'm not against that.

If you want to make a game to make people really think or, you know, make people sad or whatever you'd like, that's fine.

But the point is, the point of game design is you're trying to create an optimal experience

for your target audience.

I'll come back to that.

That's why I want to stress that up front.

Okay, so the first request that I get that I often have to ignore,

prove that you can do it right.

So this one usually comes when we're talking about something that a subset of players enjoyed,

but the majority didn't enjoy, where something didn't go well.

We want to go back to a world that failed the first time you did it,

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