I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from their drive to work.

Okay, so every once in a while on my podcast, I take a topic of an article I wrote, and I do a podcast on it.

Partly because not everybody likes every medium, and some people like to listen to me in podcast form.

This was an important topic, though, so I'm happy to do a podcast version of it.

So this article was called Why Diversity Matters in Game Design.

So the point of the article, the point of today's podcast, is not to talk about why diversity is important.

It is, but it's not the point.

What I'm talking about today is, why is diversity good for game design specifically?

So in order to talk about this, what I did

is I took six of the lessons from my 20 lessons, 20 years 20 lessons podcast, the big thing I did for GDC.

I took six of them as based sort of lessons that I've talked about in the past, and then I apply

to them, okay, now let's look at why diversity

matters in this context. So that's what I'm going to do today. I'm going to walk through each

one of these and talk about sort of just the general importance of diversity in game design.

Okay, so lesson number one is allow the player the ability to make the game personal. So this general game design rule or lesson talks about how

if you want somebody to really get connected to your game,

you have to give them some means in some ways to make it personal to them.

That, you know, I talk a lot about in my game design of how people fundamentally make

their decisions based on emotion and not on intellect. As much as we as humans like to think

we make intellectual decisions, most of the time, it's our emotions that are running our decision

making. And we talk about a game, a big part of a game, you know, whenever I talk about,

like, how do you know if your game is good? I ask the question, when someone plays your game,

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