David Cole designs the incredible game making app, Castle. Before that, he was VP of Design at Quora. We talked about:

  • The design decisions that make it quick and accessible to build expressive games with Castle.
  • How Castle eschews some goals (like teaching coding or enabling professional quality games) so it can nail its actual goals.
  • The techniques Castle uses to let people use latent time on their phone to create, rather than consume.
  • Why games are valuable as culture. And why it's worthwhile working on a tool to make games.
  • How game design techniques like emergence can be applied to non-game software.

Links:

  • Castle
  • This podcast is part of Mary Rose Cook's research to build software quickly.

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