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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #144 - Redflagging

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2014

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mark explains redflagging and the common red flags.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.5

Okay. So today, I want to have a podcast that follows up on another podcast, although it's, well, related, it's its own podcast.

0:15.0

So I had done a podcast on New World Order, and during that, I talked about a concept called red flagging. And I'm going to talk

0:22.6

all about what red flags mean today and how we use them in design. Okay. So, what red flag,

0:29.9

when you red flag something, what it means is, when we create a new world order, the goal was

0:36.7

we wanted to create a certain level of complexity

0:38.9

and tow the line of that complexity at common.

0:42.9

And the idea was that there's different things we care about.

0:45.7

I talked about the different types of complexity.

0:47.8

There is comprehension complexity.

0:49.8

Can you read the cards and understand them?

0:51.4

There is board complexity.

0:52.6

Do you understand how things interact when they're all in play together?

0:55.4

And then there is strategic complexity.

0:57.6

Do you understand the ramifications of what this means?

1:00.6

Strategic complexity tends to be somewhat invisible to be getting players.

1:03.7

We're less worried about that.

1:05.3

Commons can have...

1:08.0

Comments are allowed to have...

1:12.6

Oh, sorry?

1:14.8

Comments are allowed to have strategic complexity,

1:18.6

but we have to be careful about their comprehensive complexity

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