Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

As we all know, that means it's another time for drive to work.

So today, one of the things I've been thinking about is different kinds of topics.

It became apparent to me that I can't solely do sets because there's only so many sets I've worked on,

and I like to keep doing this podcast for a while, so I'm spreading those out. So one of the things I thought I would do from time to time

is take popular articles I've written and talk about them. So today's is one of the most

popular articles I've written in the last couple years called 10 Things Every Game Needs.

So for those that have never read it, A, go read it, it's very good.

So what happened was my daughter, Rachel, was in fifth grade at the time, and she had a

teacher named Mr. Nichols. And I went to the teacher, meet the teacher night. And in it,

he said, you know, I really like having parents come and speak.

If you have some expertise, let me know about it, and I'll find a way to fit you into the

curriculum. So I said to him, oh, I'm, you know, I've done plenty of public speaking.

I'm more than happy to talk to the class. He says, oh, well, what do you do? And I said, I'm a game designer. And he goes, oh, I know exactly how I'm going to use you.

So it turns out that in his class, for the American Revolution, the assignment is they make a game.

And so he had me come in and speak to the class about making games. And so to prepare for it,

I had put together a speech about what games needed.

I decided that what I would do is try to help the kids make their game, teach them some things about what games needed.

And then I ended up writing an article about this based on my speech in which I talked about what I thought the things were,

and then I applied them to magic to say why I think magic does a good job at this thing.

I think magic actually hits all 10 very well.

So I thought today I would examine the 10 things and talk about them.

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