I'm put on my 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 far, we've done goal or goals.

We've done rules. We've done interaction. We've done catch-up feature. We've done inertia.

We've done surprise. We've done strategy. Which means we're up to number eight on the list.

Which means today's podcast is going to be fun.

I mean quite literally, because today's podcast is the topic of fun.

We're doing fun today.

So, of all my topics, this is the squishiest one.

Fun is somewhat subjective.

I would argue today it's not completely subjective, but what one person finds fun is different

from what someone else might find fun.

There's some universal truce that we'll get to.

But, uh, so anyway, one of the things I said starting out is, look, here's 10 things

every game needs.

Once you get more experienced, eh, not every game needs all of these.

There are games that don't have each of the components I'm talking about.

But of the 10, the one you kind of need the most,

would be today's fun, fun.

Which means if a game just isn't fun,

it's going to get harder people to play it,

and especially hard to get them to replay it.

So, okay, so let's walk through what exactly fun is, why do you need it, and how do you make sure your game has it?

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