I'm pulling out of a driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so today is another in my 20 lessons series.

So I did a podcast at GDC this last year.

It was 20 years, 20 lessons about the 20 or 20 of the lessons I've learned in 20 years making the same game.

And so I decided to take each of these lessons and put it into its own podcast.

So I've already done the first two ones.

I talked about how fighting against human nature is the losing battle.

I talked about why aesthetics matter.

Well, today I'm going to talk about why resonance is important.

So I'm going to talk about resonance, what it is, and then talk about what it matters for game playing,

why you should care about it.

Okay, so to begin with, let's talk about the example I gave.

For each of my lessons, I started by telling a story.

So this story goes back to Innestrade.

Actually, Inestrade in Dark Ascension.

So what happened was one of the techniques that we learned, because Inestrade was my first time doing top-down design.

Not magic's first time.

Magic had already done both Arabian Nights and Champions of Kamagawa.

But I was on neither of those design teams.

So the first time that I was on neither of those design teams. So the first

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