The Importance of Community in Games

I think it's fascinating when players kind of take over a game and start to play it the way they want to. And then there's this interesting, kind of, interplay between how you as a designer sort of intend the game to be versus how you create it so that it is open-ended enough for players to create their own experience. So what do you think makes a game more likely to succeed in that space? I definitely kind of feel like if people are playing,. or people are choosing to play the game a certain way, like then you should really pay attention to that because they're, they've found something there they may not have been aware of right? You know,