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How to Balance Game Design with a Full Time Job with Sen-Foong Lim

The Board Game Design Lab

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The Importance of Rationality in Game Design

I think working with other people really does help to solidify your chops in terms of explaining games and justifying your decision so as a clinical therapist when I teach students That's my number one job is I have to teach them how to rationalize verbally rationalize or rationalize in writing your clinical decision. And the same thing happens in game design cycle. When you work by yourself, you never have to explain the why and so you might get caught down Roads that maybe shouldn't be followed but when you have somebody else has a check in balancing Can you explain why and you can't? Sometimes just a feeling might be good enough to say oh, it's just the way I feel I think this

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