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Designer Notes 65: Robin Hunicke - Part 2

Feb 19, 2022

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The Leadership Team Set's the Tone

02:13

Building a Deliberately Developmental Organization

04:00

Game Design - How to Get the Most Out of Your Game Design

01:55

Introduction

2min

Electronic Arts - My Best D D That I Ever Had an Electronic Arts Career Was Jason Chase

2min

Leadership Failures

2min

You Made a Difference

3min

The Pressure to Perform Authority in a Highly Diverse Environment Is Toxic

2min

Taking a Break From Your Personal Life

2min

The Design Culture Is Toxic

4min

Is It a Good Idea to Start a New Franchise in a Blizzard?

2min

Having an Intuition, a Tool Box, I've Never Fully Eclipsed This Problem

4min

10.

The Leadership Team Set's the Tone

2min

11.

Building a Deliberately Developmental Organization

4min

12.

I'm a Fraud, You Know?

4min

13.

What's Your Responsibility on the Project?

4min

14.

Doda - The Dragon Portifit

4min

15.

Game Design - A Game That Isn't Toxic

2min

16.

Is There a Way to Play a Game Like Oson Yoo?

2min

17.

The Dragon Prototype - How Did You See Everyone Yet?

2min

18.

The World of Warcraft - The Story of the Game

3min

19.

Game Design - How to Get the Most Out of Your Game Design

2min

20.

The Second System That We Needed to Fix

2min

21.

Angenova's Multiplaer Game

4min

22.

Is There Any Arms in Zelda?

1min

23.

What if You Can't Jump?

2min

24.

I've Never Played a Game Like This Before.

2min

25.

Why Were Always Asking the Player to Sacrifice?

4min

26.

Game Review - Journeying to a Mountain

2min

27.

How Can We Effectively Communicate About the Things That Are Not Working in the Game?

2min

28.

What I Did on My Hike an Butan

2min

29.

The Effect of Limiting the Scarf to 20 Dollars Per Level

3min

30.

Game Design - I'm Crushing It!

4min

31.

'Tidy', a Tucking Miracle, I'm Gonna Lie Now Whistling a Miracle

2min

32.

Aio, Yea Kind of a Miracle

4min

33.

Rihti E Mel, Significantly

4min

34.

Wete Peple Sa Games

2min

35.

Sky Shipped

2min

36.

Did the Success Change Your Perception of What You Shouldn't Become

4min

37.

The Pandemic Was Like, You Didn't Want to Do It?

3min

38.

Having a D D O. Is a Good Thing, Right?

4min

39.

The Uninhabitable Earth

4min

40.

I'm a Systems Thinker and an Artist, and I Love to Solve Systems

2min

41.

How Can We Salve Us to Day?

2min

42.

Is There Such a Thing as Infinite Life?

5min

43.

The E Games, You're an Explorer, Period.

3min

In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Robin Hunicke, co-founder of Funomena and best known for her work on MySims, Boom Blox, and Journey. They discuss why developers overperform their authority in large companies, how they almost accidentally made Journey a competitive game, and why they decided to let thatgamecompany run out of money to ship the game. This episode was recorded December 1, 2021.

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