{"id":25510,"date":"2011-03-27T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-wall-are-penns-ten-game-design-rules-and\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:34:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:34:23","slug":"on-the-wall-are-penns-ten-game-design-rules-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-wall-are-penns-ten-game-design-rules-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25510 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-wall-are-penns-ten-game-design-rules-and\/attachment\/25511\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lg83651kCt1qbup7mo1_250-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>On the wall are Penn&rsquo;s ten game design rules, and it&rsquo;s these that form the structure of the brainstorming process. There&rsquo;s no sense that the team is just picking genres and trying to come up with new spins on old ideas. Instead, there&rsquo;s a sort of organic, industrial design approach &#8211; they start by considering actions and interfaces &#8211; what&rsquo;s fun to use, what isn&rsquo;t? Today, they&rsquo;re playing with iPhone, just fiddling about with different uses of the touchscreen, finding out what feels satisfying. &ldquo;We always start with the idea of toys,&rdquo; says Ralfe. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re the quickest way into finding fun. Rules aren&rsquo;t fun, so we never begin with them.&rdquo; There&rsquo;s also a fluidity to the design process &#8211; Battle Atekko starting out as a racing game, but the fighting element looked like becoming the really fun bit, so they switched to a combat game. Fun is key. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/gamesblog\/2009\/jan\/29\/gameculture-xbox\">The Denki Difference | Technology | guardian.co.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the wall are Penn&rsquo;s ten game design rules, and it&rsquo;s these that form the structure of the brainstorming process. There&rsquo;s no sense that the team is just picking genres and trying to come up with new spins on old ideas. Instead, there&rsquo;s a sort of organic, industrial design approach &#8211; they start by considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25512,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25510\/revisions\/25512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}