Solid Video, though something to watch for is over valuing elegance. On a game I've been working on I have a up front tutorial with some text. It's easy to instantly say "well you should integrate it into the rest of the game" and I do very much do that, but KNOWING the player has a solid foundation for the core mechanics is very powerful from a design perspective because it lets you trust the player more. I can introduce more advanced concepts faster to keep the game interesting because I had forced the player to spend about 60 seconds learning what they need to know. More than that though is the question of development time. Yes I could have crafted an amazing tutorial and polished it to be great, but what good is a tutorial if there is no game after it? Elegance is not free, and understanding that it is often times a trade helps you better understand the question. I traded some elegance in my tutorial for confidence in the information being understood. In my case the mechanics are really easy to not understand so that was a very worth trade.
Solid Video, though something to watch for is over valuing elegance. On a game I've been working on I have a up front tutorial with some text. It's easy to instantly say "well you should integrate it into the rest of the game" and I do very much do that, but KNOWING the player has a solid foundation for the core mechanics is very powerful from a design perspective because it lets you trust the player more. I can introduce more advanced concepts faster to keep the game interesting because I had forced the player to spend about 60 seconds learning what they need to know.
More than that though is the question of development time. Yes I could have crafted an amazing tutorial and polished it to be great, but what good is a tutorial if there is no game after it? Elegance is not free, and understanding that it is often times a trade helps you better understand the question. I traded some elegance in my tutorial for confidence in the information being understood. In my case the mechanics are really easy to not understand so that was a very worth trade.
Awesome video. Reminded me how much I love Mini Metro!
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