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

Okay. So today is the 10th in my 10 part series, 10 things every game needs. So I've talked about why you need a goal or goals, why you need rules, why you need interaction,

why you need a ketchup feature, why you need inertia, why you need strategy, why you need

surprise, why you need fun, why you need flavor. So today I'm down to the final one, why your

game needs a hook.

So the interesting thing is this all began because in fifth grade,

when my oldest daughter was in fifth grade, I got called to talk to her class.

They had an assignment where they had to make for the Revolutionary War,

their American Revolution segment.

They had to make a game that was flavored to the American Revolution.

And so I was brought in to sort of talk to them to say, hey, here's some tips about making games.

And so I made my speech about intro to gaming called 10 Things Every Game Needs.

Obviously, that begett article in my column, which beget a podcast which beget a series of podcasts

but the interesting thing is when I first did it when I first wrote down the things I wanted

I actually had nine things not 10 and I was like oh like I just this the aesthetic lover in me

knew that 10 was just a nicer number.

I mean, there's top 10 lists all the time.

The 10 is, it just felt like when you got to 9, you kind of had to get to 10.

And the obvious thing that was missing for me was the hook.

But at the time, it was like, well, I'm talking to little kids about making a project

for school. They're never selling this project. So like, well, it's not really relevant. But

then part of me said, you know what, it's part of game making. I'm not going to dwell on it

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