What makes a great computer gaming experience?
One sentence in an article in BusinessWeek made me understand what a great computer gaming experience is all about:
Simple to learn, difficult to master is the holy grail of game design.
This sentence reminds me of the power of clear and simple statements to summarizes the challenges, requirements and goals of a great computer gaming experience. Of course one could create a framework that incorporates all the different factors and dimensions that make a computer game great but at the end it would be too complicated and nobody could understand it, not to mention apply it.
Methods, frameworks, models, best-practices – too often things are over-complicated. Sometimes the reasons are failed efforts to create a model that "explains the world", sometimes because the problem is not yet fully understood. This quote from Leonardo da Vinci gets to the point:
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Why does that matter? If one can’t express in a simple statement what constitutes a remarkable customer experience, things are either artificially complicated or – more probable – customers are not fully understood.
Read the full article in BusinessWeek.
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