Game Design

It's fine if you think this is dumb. I just think it's interesting to fully explore basic concepts so you can enjoy things under a new light.

I'd wholeheartedly suggest you read one of the popular game design books. You'll find what you talk about in this video is in depth explained under the topic of "Fuzzy goals" in the design process.
It's a good find on your part, nice video!

Oh. Cool, you changed the thumbnail and title. I guess this must have meant you saw the inherent leap of logic and decided to backtrack in order to save face. Neat

You're just saying that every game needs incomplete information.

INFJ Logan is INFJ. The way he is funneling a bunch of information from many different places and origins and then simplifying it and condensing it down into one concept is a classic example of Introverted inutition the first function of the INFJ. I know he is INFJ because someone close to me that I grew up with and talk with every day is also an INFJ. I always knew logan was an INFJ but this video proves it to me.

Incorrect. Some games require creative skill to achieve a goal. Not all games are competitive and combat based. You can apply the same in life. Why wrestle with pigs?

Between this and SmallAnt's theory of every pokemon move being derivative of Dig, I am beginning to think there is no creativity, and time is a flat circle.

TBH, this is a way to think about the definition of a game, there are some gdc talks I remember that talk about game design and this concept is pretty well known, just shown differently

I don't think you're wrong, but I think you're missing something else. It's about the anticipation of the end, yes, but that comes from the unpredictability of which ending it will be. In Magic the Gathering, for example, one of the best moments is that when you've got lethal, you can SEE it. But you STILL can't be sure what your opponent has up their sleeve that could stop you, like a counterspell, or a fog, or in Yu-Gi-Oh, a magic cylinder. Even when the end is in sight, the fact that it might not actually be the end you expected is what makes it even more exciting. This is why many euro-board games are boring, because you know way too early who is going to win based on the algorithm they chose to employ. Turnarounds and comebacks are a vital part of what makes games fun. In hide and seek, you can play several times and enjoy it each time because the ending you found is never quite what you could have anticipated.

Yay hide and seek!

I want my 3 minutes back I spent before I stopped watching

Congratulations, you found out that games have an artificial goal that you have to work for to reach. It's literally the definition of a game (not meaning to be harsh, I really enjoy your videos)

It's like hearing myself think when I listen to your channel. You're a very intelligent and tortured person. Thank you for being you

regular pooh: "character motivation and narrative conflict"
bespoke pooh: "hide and seek"

oh god my BRAIN

As for how this can be applied to D&D: Sandbox instead of Railroad.

This was great! I found it clever

Allow me to rephrase your hypothesis: every game needs objectives and obstacles. Good point, ill chosen words. 👍🏻

I feel like you're redefining having a goal as hide and seek here which works for the most part but hide and seek isn't really the lowest common denominator.

Not that I think you're wrong or, it just seems like you're making things muddier than they need to be.

How does this apply to games that don't have hidden information?

You seem to make videos about controversy, yet immediately make a comment saying that "its okay to not agree with me" then never read criticism about your point so nobody can have a debate with you bro. Why do you only make videos about problems you find rather then things you like.

This works, but it's just nihilism. If you reduce any two things far enough, no matter how far apart they are, then you can make them seem similar. Not just games, but literally any two thoughts in your mind.

so games are all hide and seek in the same way code geass is just team deathmatch

Worst video you’ve ever made.

i love this

Neat idea.

A fantastic video, good job!

Not a bad video, don't give up and keep going. I love your stuff keep making.

Yea, I liked this. Thank you for this.

Has anyone's copy of Stibbles arrived yet? What are the highlights?

I don't think that you're wrong, but I think that your reasoning is so reductive that your outcome isn't really saying anything.

There is a hole in your video. I didnt have to seek in the video. You showed me everything. My involvement meant nothing. All i had to do was exist with functioning facilities.

Meanwhile in Shadowrun, the GM hides your rent money

Bubsy... oh no ... the Flashbacks of horror

So game design is basically designing the journey to a players goal

Do you think Sony Vegas is better than the adobe alternative Premiere Pro?

this angers me

Honestly, this outlook would make for an awesome bard XD Any character's core trait, honestly. It's a really interesting philosophy to define a personal outlook.

You almost had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

Pretty sure this is a tautology based on semantics but fun anyway.

“Games have objectives and challenges” amazing giant brain revelations

“Games have objectives and challenges” amazing giant brain revelations

I wonder how clearly you understand that this applies perfectly to "spirituality"/self-improvement/magic as well.

This is likely why movies and stories in general are more popular with 'good' endings - we like to see that we are correct, and most people assume the good guys win and the bad guys get what's coming to them. We rely on the story teller to hide the ending so we can seek it by watching the movie/reading the story. There's multiple threads 'hiding' that we seek the resolution.

I see your point, but I think its trivial.
You are defining Hide and seek as the structure: "You are in A and want to go to B and there's something trying to stop you", but every game follows this structure in a micro and macro level.
So its all the way around, Hide and seek follows this formula instead of defining it.

We need to buy Logan's book so he can get a better computer

nothing is simple enough be just one thing, even if a better/harder/more annoying version of that one thing. sure, all things are interconnected at their core, but not everything is just another thing with more layers on top.
which you probably knew while thinking about this video but decided to ignore atleast at the surface level for simplicity sake, which isn't fair for the viewers who might try to learn from you, those who already have opinions in the subject and those who are rushing to the comment section as soon as the video ends (though in that last case its unfair in their favor)

Raceing games?
I enjoy the concept, and the the idea that you can distill any game down to a very very basic level, but it's a little bit of flawed logic.
It's a similar argument to saying "everything in life is a game" when clearly it's not. Everything can be made into a game, sure, but if you're the only one playing, but you're not the only one involved, it's not really.

What about "Pong"?