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

Okay, so today is another in my series, 10 things every game needs. So this is the fifth one.

So so far I've talked about needing a goal or goals and needing rules and needing interaction and needing a catch-up feature.

So today I'm going to talk all about needing inertia.

So first off, one of the things, I've seen a lot of beginning game designers games.

And people often say, what's the number one mistake that a new game designer will make?

And the number one mistake I think that most people make is game length.

That they make the game last longer than it should.

And so the quote, I use this quote in my article on the topic,

which was, I had a writing teacher.

And the writing teacher said, okay, the key to having a

story of the right length is to make your story as short as you possibly can and then cut 10%.

Games have a very similar quality, which is you want to make sure that your game ends

before your players want it to end.

This is crucial.

That if the game ends and your player still wants to play more, they walk away going,

that was a fun game.

I want to play that game again.

If the game ends and it's past the point where they want it to end, they go,

eh, it wasn't that great a game, and they might never play it again. So it is much, much better

to have your game end and have really want to play more than you to completely satisfy everything

and go beyond that, and then going, eh, you you know so first and foremost inertia i mean inertia

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