I'm pulling away from the curb. We all know what that means. It's time's rather drive to work.

And I had to take my daughter to the bus stop today.

Okay, so today is another series in my 10 Things Every Game Needs series.

Okay, so this is number nine. I've already talked about why your game needs a goal or goals,

why it needs rules, why it needs interaction, why it needs needs a goal or goals, why it needs rules, why it needs

interaction, why it needs a ketchup feature, why it needs inertia, why it needs strategy, why it

needs surprise, and why it needs fun.

So today we're going to talk about why it needs flavor.

Okay, so when you boil it down, flavor does three really big things for your game.

Number one is it makes your game easier to understand and relate to.

Number two, it makes it easier to enjoy and to relate with other people.

And number three, it makes players more likely to want to buy it.

All those are really important things.

So I'm going to walk through the major things that flavor is going to do for you.

So we're going to start with making your audience understand your game better.

What's going on here?

Okay, so one of the things I had a whole podcasting on a concept called piggybacking.

So what piggybacking.

So what piggybacking is, is the idea that when you are making a game, or anything really, but I'm applying this to games,

the idea that your audience doesn't come in a blank slate.

They know things.

And you taking advantage of what your audience already knows can make it easier for them to learn your game.

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