Prototyping advice

I shrunk as much as I could a list of useful advice I received from the developer I most idolize. Hope that’s useful to you.

Explore new playable concepts
Clone at least one Mario mechanic
Start a prototype with a question
Playable build ASAP
Playtest each build a THOUSAND times observing the players’ patterns
Everything starts with an input, it’s the only way the player can communicate with the game
Focus on GAMEPLAY and in your CORE MECHANIC
Your toy is your main ingredient, think of what you can mix with it
Analyze EVERY action parameter and experiment with them
Have a minimum and maximum for each challenge
Use the challenge to define the game’s flow
See your game as a OCR loop with another micro loop inside of it (Objective > Challenge > Reward)
Reward immediately EVERY positive behavior
Failures must have a cost
When polishing look for the best possible design, sound, and visuals
Make a code library

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