Authors in August: Game Design with Jesse Schell

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🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur, author, and game designer Jesse Schell is here to talk about the art of design, the creation of experience, and the future of games.

(4:58) "What you pretend to be, you will become"
(10:21) Creating the experience
(12:35) Immersive play and iterating on the fly
(16:56) "A problem-solving activity approached with a playful attitude"
(22:44) Elements of game design: mechanics, story, aesthetics, and technology
(33:31) Naming and reinforcing a theme
(43:45) "People can steal your moves, but they can never steal your inspiration"
(51:15) The rule of the loop - iterate quickly to accelerate the power of evolution
(57:18) What the future holds: VR, meta, and games within games

Host: David Gardner
Guest: Jesse Schell
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	How many books have you read on game design?
0:03.2	For most of us, the answer is probably zero.
0:06.6	But if I do a good job this week interviewing author, entrepreneur, and game designer
0:10.8	Jesse Shell, I hope I might convince you to read at least one.
0:16.8	And it is a masterpiece.
0:19.4	The art of game design only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
0:23.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
0:30.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. If my audio quality in the intros this week is not up to snuff,
0:40.0	it's because I recorded it from Scotland. However, good news, it's about to get a lot better
0:45.1	as the rest of this interview comes from our normal environs in the good old US of A.
0:50.1	Jesse Shell is an American video game designer, author, CEO of Shell Games, and a distinguished
0:57.0	professor of the practice of entertainment technology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1:04.0	After reading Jesse's book The Art of Game Design more than a decade ago, I reached out to him
1:09.0	as one of our kids was touring Carnegie Mellon and had a wonderful chance then to connect with
1:14.3	Jesse in his offices because in addition to being the superstar author of the
1:19.6	art of game design Jesse is an entrepreneur having worked in partnership with some of the best
1:25.0	brands in entertainment to design for them everything from mobile and VR games to amusement
1:31.4	park rides.
1:39.0	Jesse kicks off authors in August this week with our wide-ranging conversation from philosophy to practice. I hope and trust there's something in this for everyone.
1:44.0	Without further ado, let's get started.
1:47.0	Jesse Schell, great to have you on Rule Breaker Investing.
1:50.0	How you doing?
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