Author: Tobias Lindqvist

Every system in a game is a sentence about what the designer wants you to do. Grind is a sentence. So is a queue timer, a loot table, a guild bank permission screen. I write about what those sentences actually say, and why so many of them say something the designer did not intend. I build a game alone, badly and slowly, which means I have made most of these mistakes myself and can tell you what they cost.