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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #107 - Design Skeleton

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Ccg, Mark Rosewater, Magic The Gathering

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2014

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about an important design tool called the design skeleton.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.7

Okay, so today I'm going to be talking about something called a design skeleton.

0:13.0

So what a design skeleton is, it's something that is part of the technical side of the job.

0:19.4

I talk a lot about making magic,

0:21.9

and I know that there's a...

0:24.1

I tend to focus a lot on the...

0:25.6

What's the word?

0:28.5

The intuitive, inspirational.

0:31.2

Oh, I had a dream, and oh, my God, bam, I had an idea.

0:34.7

And I talk a lot about...

0:36.8

There's a lot of thought in the creativity

0:40.3

that there's this like moments of pure clarity

0:43.5

where you realize things.

0:45.1

And there's some of that.

0:46.4

And I play that up.

0:47.2

And there's a fun thought of, you know,

0:49.6

of creativeness, of having this wild sort of, you know,

0:53.8

right brain side sort of thing.

0:57.8

But in reality, a lot of the creative process is hard work and structure, is spending a lot

1:04.6

of time carefully crafting and figuring something out.

1:08.3

And today, I'm going to talk about a tool that we use to do that.

1:14.3

I first started talking about design skeletons in a series I have called nuts and bolts

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