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• 00:19, 13 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Jk2 lesson14.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 00:13, 13 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page Your audience is good at recognizing problems and bad at solving them (Created page with "Mark acts as spokesperson for the game. He's very kind to answer as many questions as he can and be open about what he can talk about to the players. Over the course of many years he has answered thousands and thousands of questions. The metaphor that he uses is about going to a doctor. The doctor knows the diseases and symptoms better than the patient and as such, he or she is better equipped to solve the problems that are found in the patient's body or mind. I'd make a...")
• 23:11, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page All the lessons connect (Created page with "When Mark placed all the lessons on a board he noticed that all the lessons connect to one and another. They weren't lessons that could really stand apart from each other. They were all part of a complex web of lessons. For example: every game has an universal restriction that is to please a target audience, there isn't a way to escape that. The game can't be anything to please anybody. That's impossible. All 19 lessons are part of a larger learning process and they are...")
• 22:52, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page Make the fun part also the correct strategy to win (Created page with "This lesson comes from the set Unhinged, the second comedy oriented set made. In it Mark created the mechanic ''"Gotcha"''. Some cards had an effect that was triggered when the opponent did something. Some cards cared about touching your own face, others about laughing, others about certain words, others about speaking numbers, etc. The idea sounds fun in principle because you are making the players interact with some very unusual conditions. That mechanic essentially b...")
• 22:51, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Standstill.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 22:42, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page Don't design to prove you can do something (Created page with "<center>350px</center> In Avacyn Restored there was a character called Tibalt. To challenge themselves they though about making the first low mana cost planeswalker, with a mana cost of two. The problem with mana costs and power level is that often you have to make concessions to avoid creating an excessively powerful card. Tibalt, by having a mana cost of two, was forced to have low power abilities that were aligned with his mana cost. The card was...")
• 22:33, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Tibalt.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 22:28, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page If everyone likes your game but no one loves it, it will fail (Created page with "Among all employees at Wizards most of them know how to play magic but don't take part in creating cards. The company saw the potentially useful resource that all those employees were to the game's development. They started to poll the employees to rank the rare and mythic cards in a scale from 1 to 10. A low score meant that the person would be unhappy to find in a pack. A high score meant that the person would be very happy to find in a pack. It's a practical way to as...")
• 22:27, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page Leave room for the player to explore (Created page with "The players enjoy to discover things. In Magic there is an uncountable number of card's combinations. Mark cites two cards that are not meant to form a combo, but they do. One is a blue card that copies every instant or sorcery, granting copies to all other players when a player casts one. The other is a green spell that costs zero and searches its owner's library for a creature. The caveat is that it costs zero, but the next turn the player is forced to pay a cost to no...")
• 22:25, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page Allow your players to have a sense of ownership (Created page with "Magic has a property that it has multiple formats to choose from. Each format restricts what cards you can play with. The official formats are sanctioned and adopted in tournaments. But the player are free to create their own rules and formats. ''"Commander"'' for example was created by judges that wanted to have fun after long hours judging tournaments. Commander has its own set of rules and one of them is to restrict decks to have exactly 100 cards, not fewer and not m...")
• 22:25, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Minecraft lesson9.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 22:22, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page The details are where the players fall in love with your game (Created page with "<center>350px image:one_eye_creature.jpg</center> This card wasn't meant to cause any major impact, but it did. The card itself wasn't powerful. The impact came from a little creature on the top of the dragon's head. It's called ''"Fblthp"'' (can't pronounce it). Players fell in love with it and produced a lot of montages, memes to the point that the company itself sold products based on it. This proves that very often the players are very...")
• 22:21, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Bioshock lesson8.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 22:19, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Totally lost.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 22:19, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:One eye creature.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 22:14, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page Allow the players the ability to make the game personal (Created page with "Mark remembers a talk that he had with Christopher Rush, one of the most famous cards illustrator. Among one of his illustrations, the Black Lotus, the most famous and expensive card from the game. In that talk Chris pitched the idea of making basic lands with no text and full frame art. The argument to support this idea was that basic lands are something that every player knows, why not skip the text box all together? The argument against it was that basic lands shouldn...")
• 22:13, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Poe lesson7.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 22:02, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page Understand what emotion your game is trying to evoke (Created page with "The example that he gives is the Innistrad set. The central theme was horror and how to bring horror to the game? Horror is tied to fear, therefore the goal is to make cards that make the player experience the fear. One of the mechanics were doubled faced cards, where the front face was a weaker creature, whereas the back face was a scary abomination. Double faced cards are cards that effectively double the space of a card, which can have different functions on each face...")
• 21:58, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Uncharted3 desert.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 21:53, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page Don't confuse "interesting" with "fun" (Created page with "In a card game, any one, there is a concept called "card advantage". In Magic that means that you have more resources than your opponent, you have more spells and cards to play under different scenarios. There are many ways to achieve that. The most basic form is to draw cards faster than your opponent. Or the opposite, to make them lose cards by means of discard effects. The idea behind it is that you are closer to the victory by having more spells at your disposal. It'...")
• 21:39, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Rubiks cube.png (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
• 21:39, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Poe complex.png (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 21:37, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Sonic underwater.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 21:37, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Patrol hound.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 21:37, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Jk2 stealth.jpg (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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• 20:43, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page Make use of piggybacking (Created page with "This lesson is a continuation of the previous. In a few words, take advantage of knowledge that already exists about a theme. The example here is the game "Plans vs. Zombies". George Fan, who made the game, explains that plants and zombies were chosen for a particular reason. The towers in a game of this type don't move, plants convey this idea of fixed towers perfectly. The zombies were chosen because the convey the idea of hordes that walk slowly and attack in large nu...")
• 20:39, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page Resonance is important (Created page with "The example that he gives comes from creating the sets Innistrad and Dark Ascension. To get cards that resonated with the desired set's horror theme a technique was used, which was to create names first and from the names the cards themselves. That's called top-down design. The other way around is bottom up, where the card's mechanic is made first and then a name is chosen. The top-down design choice was successful. <center>image:endless_ranks_of_the_dead.png</cente...")
• 20:34, 12 February 2025 Wikiadmin talk contribs created page File:Maxpayne.png (Uploaded with SimpleBatchUpload)
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