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> focus first on what it is, and then only on how it plays

This is a great way to make a game that is pretty but boring.



Pretty-but-boring is already how they make games.


Which is why the advice is terrible. Games need to be fun first which is why Doom uses abstract levels instead of realistic levels.




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